110-114, PORTLAND STREET

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/311 (North West side) 28/02/89 Nos.110 TO 114 (Even)

GV II

Warehousing (probably textiles or clothing), now shop and offices. 1880, by Charles Heathcote; altered. Sandstone ashlar ground floor, red brick with sandstone dressings above, slate roof. Irregular trapeziform plan. Romanesque style. Three storeys with basement and attic, 5 bays, symmetrical above ground floor; with cornice to ground floor, brick pilasters and stone sill-bands to both upper floors, stone eaves cornice on brick corbel table, and shallow 3-bay flat-roofed attic dormer. Round-headed doorway to left, shouldered waggon entry to right, and windows and doorways with rounded corners between these; windows of 1:2:2:2:1 lights on both upper floors, those in the centre at 1st floor set in round-headed arches and with round-headed lights, brick pilasters and moulded stone imposts, and those in the flanking bays with segmental open pediments; those in the centre at 2nd floor with square-headed lights, set-in square pilasters and brick corbel tables, and those in the flanking bays segmental-headed with corniced brick architraves. Unusual dormer with 3 groups of 3 small round-headed windows and stone cornice. All these windows sashed without glazing bars. Rear and interior not inspected. Small building of boldly-modelled mid-Victorian character. Forms group with No.106 and No.108 to right (q.v.) and Nos 116 (etc) to 126 to left.

Listing NGR: SJ8404497800