Transact House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Warehouse. 4 related planning applications.
Transact House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-pedestal-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Transact House, 48 and 50, Princess Street, M1 6HR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 841 978
- Coordinates
- 53.47679, -2.23964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Transact House is a shipping and packing warehouse, now offices, dating to approximately 1880-90. The building is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings, topped by a slate roof. It occupies a trapezoidal plan on an island site and is designed in an eclectic architectural style.
The building is four storeys high with a basement and attic, presenting a nine-window facade, including curved corners. Architectural details include a stone plinth, brick pilasters, a moulded cornice to the ground floor, a moulded main cornice with a brick parapet, and pedimented attic dormers over the centres and corners. The ground floor corners are chamfered, featuring round-headed doorways and windows within pilastered surrounds, each with a keystone. Above this, curved oriels rise the full height of the building, featuring transomed 10-light windows on every floor. The ground floor incorporates a window of two round-headed lights with a pilastered surround, above which is a two-storey canted oriel with transomed 8-light windows, and a cross-window to the third floor. Other bays have mullioned and transomed windows of six lights and cross-windows. Dormers feature cross-windows, while the corner dormers have single-light windows. A five-bay return side is present in a simpler style, with brick pilasters and a central attic gable. The interior has not been inspected.
The building forms part of an uninterrupted row of similar structures along Princess Street and is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
Transact House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 25 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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