Lancashire House

MANCHESTER

SJ8397NE PETER STREET 698-1/31/275 (North side) 03/10/74 No.47 Lancashire House (Formerly Listed as: PETER STREET (North side) No.47 Lancaster House (in error))

GV II

Includes: No.9 SOUTHMILL STREET. Probably merchant's warehouse, now betting shop and offices. c.1860-70, altered. Sandstone ashlar at ground floor, red brick with sandstone dressings above (roof not visible). Rectangular plan on corner site. Four storeys and basement, 4 bays to Peter Street and 9 bays to Southmill Street; basement and ground floor of front and of 1st bay of return side altered as shop, but Southmill Street facade otherwise of sandstone ashlar, with plinth, raised rusticated bands and plain frieze; sashed windows without glazing bars, and segmental-headed doorway to 3rd bay with enriched surround. Upper floors: bracketed cornice over 1st floor, sill- and head-bands to 3rd floor, dentilled and modillioned cornice, all carried round; all windows sashed without glazing bars, those at 1st and 3rd floors with moulded architraves, and those at 2nd floor round-headed with hoodmoulds and linking impost band carried round. Narrow chamfered corner, slightly set back. Interior not inspected. Forms group with No.37 (Harvester House) on opposite corner of Southmill Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8374397967