46, 48 AND 50, FAULKNER STREET

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW FAULKNER STREET 698-1/32/129 (North West side) Nos.46, 48, 50

GV II

Textile warehouses, now shops and offices. Probably c.1860; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Deep rectangular plan extending back to St James Street, each single-fronted, with loading at rear. Basement and 3 storeys, 3+3+3 windows, with rusticated plinth, sill-bands to 1st and 2nd floors, and moulded cornice. The basement and ground floor, treated as a continuous arcade of round-headed arches with moulded heads and keystones, has the doorways to the left, tall segmental-headed basement openings (those of no.46 to the right now blocked) and round-headed sashes at ground floor; the upper floors have triple segmental-headed sashes in moulded segmental-headed architraves with keystones. Rear: unusual open-topped full-height loading slots with parapet carried across the tops. Interior not inspected. Forms group with Nos.52 and 54 to left, and rear wing of No.16 Nicholas Street to right.

Listing NGR: SJ8415097977