Rylands Building (Debenhams) is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Warehouse, department store. 18 related planning applications.
Rylands Building (Debenhams)
- WRENN ID
- eternal-dormer-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Warehouse, department store
- Address
- Rylands Building (Debenhams), 109-127, Market Street, M60 1TA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 842 984
- Coordinates
- 53.48222, -2.23871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rylands Building, now Debenhams, is a large wholesale textile warehouse constructed in 1932 by Harry S. Fairhurst for Rylands and Sons. It occupies an irregular quadrilateral plan and is built on a steel frame clad with Portland stone, with the roof concealed. The building exemplifies a Modernist classical style and rises to seven storeys over 18 bays. The facade is characterized by a grid-iron rectilinear design above the ground floor, featuring chamfered piers and decorative panels between floors, as well as six-pane windows and a prominent parapet. Large, emphatic corner turrets containing four-storey windows and arcaded drums with sloped roofs are a striking feature. This warehouse represents one of the last and largest textile warehouses built in Manchester.
Local climate
Rylands Building (Debenhams) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 18 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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