Rhodesia House

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/330 (South West side) No.52 Rhodesia House

GV II

Includes: No.102 Rhodesia House BLOOM STREET. Various packing warehouses. c.1880-90. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on island site. Eclectic style. Four storeys with basements and attics, 3 bays plus chamfered corners, symmetrical; punch-dressed stone plinth, string-course and cornice over ground floor, pairs of string-courses between floors, moulded main cornice with brick parapet, attic above this with 2 large pedimented gables, steeply-pitched hipped roof with corner finials. The ground floor has a round-headed doorway with brick pilasters, carved capitals, moulded stone head with carved enrichments including keystone and swags and flanked by pairs of moulded brackets to the cornice above; coupled round-headed windows each side, with hoodmoulds and keystones (boarded at time of survey); upper floors have coupled sashed windows to the centre and tiered segmental bay windows of stone in the outer bays, with curved 3-light sashes and panels between floors decorated with swags. The attic dormers have pilasters, 3-light windows, and triangular pediments with stone surrounds flanked by short square chimneys. The corners have round-headed windows at ground floor, square-headed above. Nine-bay return wall, in similar style, including one bay with segmental bay windows and pedimented gable, and coupled loading bay doorways. Interior not inspected. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8420597772