Charlotte House

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW CHARLOTTE STREET 698-1/28/46 (South side) 03/10/74 No.10 Charlotte House (Formerly Listed as: CHARLOTTE STREET No.10 Charlotte House) (Formerly Listed as: GEORGE STREET Nos.44, 46 AND 48)

GV II

Includes: Nos.44, 46 AND 48 GEORGE STREET. Cotton merchants' warehouse, now offices. 1857, by Edward Walters. Sandstone ashlar and light red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan. Italian palazzo style. Basement and 5 storeys (with 4-storey rear), a 9-window symmetrical facade, the ground floor treated as a rustic, with rusticated rock-faced basement, ashlar ground floor with cornice, quoined corners, sill- and head-bands to the upper floors, and prominent modillioned cornice. The ground floor has a central round-headed doorway in a square-headed architrave with carved spandrels and a cornice, and segmental-headed windows with keyed architraves. The windows at 1st floor are segmental-headed with moulded architraves, those at 2nd floor have architraves with pediments, and those of the top 2 floors have simpler surrounds, but with a raised rosette on a roundel over each at 3rd floor, and an emphatic sill-band to the 4th floor; and the architraves of the 1st to 3rd floors are vertically linked. The left return wall to George Street has 4 bays to the same height, and a 9-bay continuation with 3 doorways but minus the 4th floor, all in matching style. Interior not inspected. Forms part of a group of 5 similar buildings on this side of the street, 4 by the same architect. Nos 44, 46 and 48 George Street was added to the List 31/5/79.

Listing NGR: SJ8414998085