Fraser House

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW CHARLOTTE STREET 698-1/28/50 (South side) 03/10/74 No.36 Fraser House

GV II

Includes: No.42 PORTLAND STREET. Textile manufacturer's warehouse, now restaurant, gallery, etc. c.1855-60, by Edward Walters; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan at right-angles to Charlotte Street, with loading at right-hand side (Reyner Street). Italianate style. Basement and 4 storeys, 3 bays, with rusticated stone plinth, frieze and cornice to ground floor, dentilled sill-bands to the 2nd and 3rd floors, a massive bracketed cornice and a brick parapet with corniced upstands at the corners (probably chimneys). The ground floor has a large round-headed doorway to the right with moulded surround and enriched architrave with prominent modillioned cornice, 3 square headed windows in the centre and coupled stilted windows to the left; the upper floors have arched windows, those at 1st and 2nd floors grouped 2:3:2 and those at top floor (which are much smaller) grouped 3:5:2, all with moulded stone heads linked by impost bands, and those of the outer bays matching the fenestration of the 5-bay left side to Portland Street. These windows are coupled and linked by impost bands on all main floors, those at ground floor stilted, those at 1st floor round-headed under semicircular moulded arches with keystones, those at 2nd floor round-headed with coupled heads in matching style; and the 3rd floor has small round-headed triple windows. Right-hand (functional rear) has, inter alia, a full-height loading slot surmounted by a turret, and a loading bay beyond this. INTERIOR: closely-spaced rows of iron columns and wooden beams, those the in former ground-floor showroom decorated as fluted columns with foliated caps and the beams with dentilled cornices; front stairs to 1st floor only, back stairs (of stone) to full height.

Listing NGR: SJ8425098015