Joshua Hoyle Building, Including Roby House

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE PICCADILLY 698-1/29/284 (South West side) 17/07/87 Nos.38 TO 50 (Even) Joshua Hoyle Building, including Roby House (Formerly Listed as: PICCADILLY No.50)

GV II

Includes: Nos.5 TO 9 GORE STREET. Textile warehouse. 1904-6, by Charles Heathcote and Sons. Steel frame with brick cladding, dressings of green and cream glazed terracotta, slate roof. Irregular plan on corner site. Eclectic style with Elizabethan accent. Five storeys and attic, 6 bays to Piccadilly plus canted corner at left end; gabled end bays, slightly narrower centre bays with coupled gables, and intermediate bays with gabled dormers; 3-light mullioned windows to all floors, those of the end and centre bays in canted oriels tiered from 2nd to 4th floors, with enriched terracotta surrounds including raised lettering between 2nd and 3rd floors of the centre "JOSHUA HOYLE AND SONS LTD". Left end has canted corner bay (clasped between gabled bays of front and return walls), with Baroque-style arched entrance under dentilled semicircular canopy and flanked by oculi with swags, 5-light canted windows tiered up to 4th floor, with elaborate enrichment, and a set-back turret with octagonal roof surmounted by a wooden bellcote with finial. Left return has one gabled bay with staggered windows, and to rear of that a warehouse range with coupled loading doorways at ground floor and 2-light windows above. Interior not inspected. Of considerable historical interest as early example of steel-frame construction.

Listing NGR: SJ8460098079