Halls Buildings

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE PICCADILLY 698-1/29/290 (North East side) 20/06/88 Nos.69 TO 75 (Odd) Halls Buildings

GV II

Warehouses and offices, now cafes, offices etc. c.1870-80, altered. Sandstone ashlar with some polished granite (roof not visible). Rectangular plan. Eclectic Venetian Gothic style. Five storeys with 2 wide central bays and narrow end bays breaking forwards very slightly (windows 1:4:4:1); cornice over ground floor (with parapet blind-arcaded in front of 1st-floor windows), cornice to 1st floor, carved sill-bands to the 3rd and 4th floors, prominent bracketed main cornice with low blocking course, pairs of carved pedestals over the outer bays and chimneys to the rear of these. The ground floor has square-headed doorways to the outer bays, both with banded pilasters and pairs of zoomorphic corbels supporting cornices to segmental-headed overlights (C20 shop-fronts between these); at 1st floor, the outer bays have round-headed windows of 2 round-arched lights with shafts, under cornices like those of the doors. Otherwise, the upper floors have 4-light windows in running arcades, those at 1st and 2nd floor round-headed, those at 3rd floor stilted-segmental and those at 4th floor square-headed, all with shafts, carved capitals and imposts, and 1-light windows to the outer bays, mostly in matching style but those at 3rd floor with cornices. Interior not inspected. Forms group with Nos 77 to 83 to right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8456898244