29, Shude Hill

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 SHUDE HILL 698-1/17/373 (North side) 23/01/90 No.29

II

Warehouse. Probably c.1810; altered. Brick in English garden wall bond, the facade stuccoed except for a glazed screen at 1st floor, hipped slate roof. Right-angled Z-plan formed by a front range on a narrow plot at right-angles to the street, a range to the right from the rear of this, and a short rear wing to this; all single-depth. Three storeys over cellars, a 3-bay facade with plinth, stuccoed rustication at ground floor, 1st-floor sill-band, over-sailing 2nd floor with sill-band, and prominent bracketed eaves. The ground floor has an altered central doorway flanked by almost-square windows with altered glazing; the 1st floor has a full-width opening with an iron lintel carried on 4 slender twisted cast-iron columns behind which is a tripartite glazed screen with horizontal glazing bars; and the 2nd floor has segmental-headed sashed windows without glazing bars. The left return wall has segmental-headed windows, those at ground floor all partly blocked, those in the 4th bay all with altered surrounds (suggesting alteration of former loading slot), otherwise mostly sashed without glazing bars except one 12-pane sash in the 4th bay. The rear of the range at right-angles, 5 bays, has similar segmental-headed windows, those at ground floor barred and with altered glazing, those above apparently 4-pane casements; and the rear wing has (inter alia), a doorway near the angle, 2 blocked windows above this and another at 2nd floor, and a former doorway at 1st floor with a small cast-iron balcony on ornamental cast-iron brackets. Interior: uniform construction throughout (including cellars), consisting of wooden beams with small chamfer, the inner ends supported on rounded piers, with some intermediate cast-iron columns which have small moulded caps and square abaci; king-post roof trusses with wrought-iron stirrups and peg-and-cottar fixings, haunched and jowelled king-posts with fishbone struts, and trenched overlapped purlins. History: deeds include 1810 conveyance from corn dealer to chapman.

Listing NGR: SJ8422598703