44-50, Portland Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/301 (North West side) Nos.44 TO 50 (Even)

GV II

Various home trade warehouses, now cafe, betting shop and offices. Probably c.1850-60; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Simplified palazzo style. Five storeys over basement, a symmetrical 6-window facade; vermiculated plinth, pilastered ground floor with cornice, sill-bands to all upper floors, moulded cornice with blocking course. Round-headed doorways to left and right, with set-in shafts, enriched lintels, moulded heads with keystones, divided panelled doors, and cornices on consoles, and windows over altered basement openings in the intermediate bays; segmental-headed windows at 1st and 3rd floors, those at 1st floor above the doors with moulded stone architraves and cornices and the others with set-in stone surrounds and linked lintels, and those at 3rd floor with stone surrounds; square-headed windows at 2nd and 4th floors, those at 2nd floor with set-in stone surrounds and those at 4th floor with set-in stone shoulders, all with linked lintels: all these windows sashed without glazing bars. Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with Nos 52 and 54 to left (q.v.), and with No.36 Charlotte Street (Fraser House) to right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8423697995