Grand Hotel

SJ 8498 SW, 698-1/28/14

MANCHESTER, AYTOUN STREET (East side), Grand Hotel

20/10/87

GV

II

Warehouse, later hotel. 1867, by Mills and Murgatroyd, altered as hotel 1883 by the same architects; subsequently altered. Sandstone ashlar (roof concealed). Large almost-square plan. Eclectic classical style. Basement and five storeys (1+2+1 and the top floor treated as an attic), 3:5:3 bays to Aytoun Street, symmetrical, the centre slightly recessed, rusticated piers to ground floor (with alternate bands of raised punch-dressed masonry), cornice to ground floor, the first and second floors of the outer bays treated as pilastered arcades of round-headed arches with linking carved imposts and keyed heads, a modillioned cornice over the second floor, pilastered third floor, panelled frieze and very prominent mutuled cornice over this, and a shallow attic storey with pilasters to the outer bays (C20 second attic added above this). Central round-headed arched entrance in the centre, under a segmental-arched cornice on elaborate consoles with masks; segmental-headed cross-window casement windows at ground floor, pedimented cross-windows at first floor and round-headed cross-windows at second floor; small coupled round-headed windows at third floor, and small coupled attic windows. Left return to Hope Street and right-hand return to Chatham Street, both 3:6:3 bays, in matching style, but with banded chimneys between the bays.

Listing NGR: SJ8450198137