Princess Buildings

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/323 (South West side) 03/10/74 Nos.18,20,22A AND 24 Princess Buildings

GV II

Includes: Nos.72, 74 AND 76 GEORGE STREET. Various textile warehouses and offices, now offices. c.1860-80. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Irregular rectangular plan. Eclectic style. Four storeys with basement and attic, a 12-window symmetrical facade divided by pilasters into bays of 1:1:3:1:1:3:1:1 windows, plus curved 2-window corners, with plinth, enriched cornice over ground floor, enriched still-bands to the upper floors, bracketed cornice enriched sill-bands to the upper floors, bracketed cornice, open-arcaded parapet with very tall slender chimneys treated as pinnacles between the bays, and mansard roof with flat-roofed dormers. The ground floor has a wide segmental-arched entrance in the centre, with pilastered surround including foliated imposts and volute keystone, and moulded round-headed doorways in the 2nd and 6th bays, with similar pilasters. All the windows are sashed without glazing bars and have moulded surrounds and mullions, those at 1st floor with shouldered heads, those at 2nd floor segmental-headed, and those at 4th floor with 2-centred arched heads and set-in shafts with carved capitals; and those in the corners with curved glazing and prominent cornices to 1st and 2nd floors. The left return side (with 3:2:3:3:2 windows) has coupled round-headed doorways to Nos 72 and 74 in the 2nd bay and a similar doorway to No. 76 in the 5th bay, segmental-headed windows to the 2nd floor and round-headed windows to the 3rd floor with colonettes of polished pink granite and sandstone caps. The right-hand return side is in similar but simpler style. Nos.72, 74 and 76 were added to the List 5/4/83.

Listing NGR: SJ8404197954