46, Sackville Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW SACKVILLE STREET 698-1/32/368 (West side) No.46

GV II

Shipping warehouse, now upholstery business. c.1860-70. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, at right-angles to street. Eclectic style with Romanesque features. Four storeys over basement, a 1:3:1-window facade plus chamfered corner to the right; with plinth, a Lombard frieze dividing the floors 2 and 2, brick pilasters to both levels, sill-bands to all floors, and wooden eaves cornice on moulded stone brackets. The corner has a segmental-headed doorway with stilted moulded surround and panelled divided doors, at 1st floor a stone canted oriel in Romanesque style, with a round-headed window which has pilaster jambs with carved caps, moulded head with keystone, Lombard frieze and steeply-pitched hipped slate roof, and at 2nd floor a pair of small round-headed windows. The main facade has segmental-headed windows to ground floor, round-headed to 1st floor, square-headed to 2nd floor and round-headed to 3rd floor, those in the centre bay mostly arcaded. Right-hand return has Lombard frieze and pilasters like those at front, 2 windows to each bay (all either round- or segmental-headed), and loading bay doorway to 5th bay. Left side and rear concealed. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8439397767