49, NEWTON STREET (See details for further address information)

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET 698-1/29/252 (North West side) No.49

GV II

Includes: No.10 STEVENSON SQUARE. Includes: No.18 HILTON STREET. Cotton goods warehouse, now garment wholesalers' premises. Mid to later C19, altered. Red brick in Flemsh bond, with gritstone ashlar plinth and dressings (roof not visible). U-plan with long range parallel to Hilton Street and wings to Newton Street and Stevenson Square. Basement and 5 storeys, a 6-window facade to Newton Street, with ground floor of rusticated gritstone, sill-band to 3rd floor, plain parapet with moulded coping and 2 upstands. The ground floor has a large round-headed doorway in the 4th bay with rusticated cavetto surround, lion-mask keystone, and cornice; and altered windows (that at left end now a doorway); the 1st and 2nd floors have 4-pane sashed windows, those at 2nd floor with raised sills and segmental heads linked by a thin channel at impost level; the 3rd and 4th floors have smaller sashes, those at 4th floor segmental-headed with keystones and linked by a similar channel. The right-hand return (to Hilton Street), an 11-window range in matching style, has a wider centre bay with a loading entrance at ground floor and tripartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors. The north return (to Stevenson Square), is 3 matching bays, including a doorway like that to Newton Street. Rear: deep loading slot in rear of Newton Street range. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8462098405