Minshull House

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW MINSHULL STREET 698-1/32/233 (South West side) No.10 Minshull House

GV II

Grey warehouse, now offices. Mid to later C19; altered. Sandstone ashlar at ground floor (painted), red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with splayed corner, loading bay at rear. Simplified palazzo style. Five storeys and basement, 8 windows plus the corner; with banded basement and left corner, band over ground floor, moulded cornice. Segmental-headed arches to basement and ground floor, the basement openings now blocked, and segmental-headed windows at ground floor with altered glazing; sashed windows without glazing bars to all upper floors, those at 1st floor with stone lintels and the others all with flat-arched heads and raised sills; tie-plates at 2nd and 3rd floors. Corner entrance with segmental-headed doorway in moulded architrave with keystone, pilasters to left and right with worn lettering "MANUFACTURERS AND PRINTERS"; segmental-headed window above, with saw-tooth arch-band, stone cornice over 3rd floor. Right-hand return to Bloom Street, 6 bays, similar to principal facade. Left return (to Richmond Street), plain and regular, has sashed windows with flat-arched heads (those to front bay blind). Rear has (inter alia) a full-height loading slot in the centre, with a hoist canopy. Interior not inspected. Forms group with No.11 Bloom Street to rear (q.v.), No.8 Minshull Street to right (q.v.), and City Police Courts opposite (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8446497990