45 And 47, Newton Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET 698-1/29/251 (North West side) Nos.45 AND 47

GV II

Textile warehouse, now fashion wholesalers' premises. Mid to later C19, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with gritstone plinth and dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan parallel to street, with loading in rear courtyard. Basement and 5 storeys, a very regular 12-window facade with basement and ground floor of channelled ashlar (now painted white), 1st and 2nd floors treated as a giant arcade with segmental-headed arches, a sill-band to 3rd floor, and a plain parapet with stone coping. No.47 has a round-headed doorway to the right with heavy pilaster jambs and grooved keystone (No.45 has altered doorway). The windows are segmental-headed, diminishing in the height, those at 2nd floor with gritstone sills and panelled aprons (set back within the arches), and those at 4th floor with raised sills; and all have altered glazing. The left end has a wider bay with rectangular loading entrance at ground floor and tripartite windows on the 2 floors above. Rear: sill-bands to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, windows with wedge lintels (and altered glazing); wall-crane. Interior not inspected. History: occupied c.1905 by Mitchell Bros. of Waterfoot [Rossendale], felt manufacturers. Forms group with No.49 to right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8461898376