Lass O Gowrie Public House

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW CHARLES STREET 698-1/32/45 (North side) Lass O'Gowrie PH

II

Public house. Mid C19 altered c.1900. Red brick with dressings of deep red, orange and green glazed terracotta, slate roof. Rectangular plan on island site with chamfered corners to west end. Two storeys over basement, a 6-window facade to Charles Street and 2-window west end, the ground floor with richly-decorated tiled cladding including pilaster panels with debased Ionic caps which have pendants with bell-flower decoration, a doorway (offset left of centre) in neo-Baroque style with open segmental pediment, and a frieze of green tiling with raised lettering ("WINES AND SPIRITS" "BOTTLED ALES AND STOUT" at the front, "LASS-O-GOWRIE" at the corner, "ALES AND STOUT" at the west end); windows with engraved plate-glass (3 to the right, one to the left and 2 at the west end); corner doorway altered as window; segmental-headed windows at 1st floor, all with keystones, that over the door blind and the others all recessed 4-pane sashes; prominent modillioned cornice carried round. Hipped roof with ridge chimney. Interior altered but basement still in use as brewery.

Listing NGR: SJ8431397523