59 And 61, Faulkner Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW FAULKNER STREET 698-1/32/135 (South East side) Nos.59 AND 61

GV II

Probably milliner's shop and workshop, now restaurant, shop, etc. Mid C19, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan extending back to Reyner Street. Cellar, 3 storeys and attic, a 4-window facade with cornice over ground floor, modillioned cornice over 2nd floor, and a high parapet with continuous workshop fenestration between corner pilasters. The ground floor has a main doorway in the 3rd bay, with a stone architrave which has broad pilasters with debased Ionic capitals and a panelled frieze under a cornice on coupled consoles; flanking the doorway, windows which have similar architraves; a large doorway to the left (possibly inserted) with panelled doubledoors; and a low segmental-headed doorway to the right (to the cellar). The 1st and 2nd floors have diminishing rectangular windows with raised sills and gauged brick heads, those at 1st floor sashed and those at 2nd floor with altered glazing. The attic has a row of five 2-light workshop windows. Ridge chimney. Interior not inspected. HISTORY: 59 occupied by milliner in 1852. Unusual survival of the type. Forms group with No.57 to left.

Listing NGR: SJ8416897950