31, Princess Street

31 Princess Street is a building in Manchester, likely constructed between 1880 and 1890, originally serving as offices and showrooms for a furnishing manufacturer, and now functioning as shops and offices. The building is designed in the Venetian Gothic style and features a narrow rectangular plan that runs at right angles to the street. It stands four storeys tall with a symmetrical facade that includes four windows on the outer sections and two in the center.

The exterior is made of sandstone ashlar, with the roof concealed. Notable architectural details include a plinth, a string course above the first floor, and sill-bands on the second and third floors. The building is topped with a bracketed cornice and an arcaded parapet that has a central pierced gablet flanked by pinnacles.

On the ground floor, there is a moulded segmental-arched doorway with double doors and a stained glass overlight that is lettered "31". This doorway is flanked by large rectangular shop fronts that have altered glazing and doorways. The upper floors feature arcaded sashed windows; the first-floor windows have raked sills and shaped heads, with bands of squared tracery above them, and the central windows are adorned with a cornice on carved brackets. The second-floor windows have arched heads with mullions rising to delicately-patterned panels, topped by chunky corbel-tables, while the third-floor windows contain recessed trefoil lights set in two-centred arches. The interior has not been inspected.