65-71, Princess Street

SJ8398SE 698-1/27/332 03/10/74

MANCHESTER PRINCESS STREET (North East side) Nos.65 TO 71 (Odd)

GV II

Row of 4 town houses, now shops and offices. Probably late C18; altered. Red brick with some sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with back extensions (No.71 with rear wing). Three storeys over cellars, 3:3:3:3 windows (but No.71 wider than the others); with plinth and wooden modillion eaves (except Nos 65 and 67 which are plain wood). Nos 65 and 67 altered at ground floor by insertion of C20 shops. Nos 69 and 71 have Tuscan pilaster doorcases with open pediments, panelled doors (up 3 renewed steps) and fanlights with radiating glazing bars, and sashed windows with raised sills and flat-arched heads, 12-paned at ground and 1st floors and 9-paned at 2nd floor; the upper floors of Nos 65 and 67 have windows with similar sills and heads but altered glazing. Various tall chimneys on front and rear slopes of roof (with water-tabling of formerly higher roof). Return side of No.71 has 4 windows plus one blocked. Rear and interior not inspected. Rare survival of domestic buildings of this period in centre of city.

Listing NGR: SJ8396698081