8, MINSHULL STREET (See details for further address information)

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW MINSHULL STREET 698-1/28/232 (South West side) No.8

GV II

Includes: No.42 BLOOM STREET. Shipping warehouse, now offices. Mid to later C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Rectangular plan at right-angles to Minshull Street, with loading bay in long side to Bloom Street. Palazzo style. Basement and 4 storeys, with a 5-bay facade to Minshull Street and a 10-bay facade to Bloom Street; ashlar basement, sill-bands to all floors (variously decorated) and a corbel-table to the cornice. The front has in the 4th bay a large sandstone architrave containing coupled round-headed doorways with colonnettes which have foliated caps, a carved roundel between the heads, a semicircular arched hoodmould spanning both, and carved spandrels; coupled windows in the 2nd and 4th bays of all floors (except the top where all are coupled), those at ground and 2nd floors round-headed, and most with colonnettes, alternating with shouldered or stilted segmental-headed single windows; the windows of the 2nd and 3rd floors have hoodmoulds linked by bands, and the 3rd floor windows are coupled with stilted segmental heads. All these windows sashed. The left side wall has a doorway in the 4th bay (No.42 Bloom Street) coupled with a segmental-headed loading bay entrance to its right, coupled round-headed windows at ground and 2nd floors, coupled segmental-headed windows at 1st floor, segmental-headed windows grouped 5, 2, 5 and 4 at 3rd floor, and breaking the eaves in the centre a gabled attic with a triple window. Loading bay includes wall-crane. Interior not inspected. Forms group with 10 Minshull Street to left (q.v.), 11 Bloom Street to rear of this (q.v.), and City Police Courts diagonally opposite (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8443198001