109, Princess Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/343 (North East side) 03/10/74 No.109

GV II

Packing and shipping warehouse, now offices. 1863, by Clegg and Knowles. Red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan on island site, at right-angles to street. Italian palazzo style. Four storeys over basement, 8 bays, symmetrical; with rusticated punch-dressed plinth, narrow chamfered corners with channelled rustication in the centre and rusticated quoins to the angles, cornice over ground floor, sill-bands to all upper floors, enriched frieze and bracketed cornice. Round-headed arcades to ground floor, 3:1:3 bays: central doorway with rusticated surround, set-in polished shafts with carved capitals, moulded head with volute keystone and carved spandrels, and prominent cornice on pairs of heavily decorated brackets and surmounted by ornamental iron balcony railings; flanking arches on brick piers, with moulded stone heads, keystones and linking imposts, containing tall basement openings with decorated cast-iron railings and shorter windows with altered glazing. 1st and 2nd floors have segmental-headed sashed windows with set-in shafts, moulded imposts, and stilted stone heads with keystones, and 3rd floor has round-headed sashes with similar enrichments. Left side wall (to Bloom Street), 10 bays in matching style, with segmental-headed loading bay entrance near far end. Forms group with Nos 105 and 107 to left (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8426197779