Langley Buildings

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/328 (South West side) No.46A Langley Buildings

GV II

Textiles warehouse, now offices. c.1880-90, altered. Cast-iron frame with sandstone ashlar facade and red brick side (roof not visible). Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street, with chamfered corner. Eclectic style with some Jacobean detailing. Five storeys over basement, a 3-window facade plus the left corner, with cornice to ground floor, sill-bands to all floors, cornice to top floor with carved upstand at corner. The ground floor has a doorway to the right with 2-light overlight in Jacobean style and cornice over this lettered "LANGLEY BUILDINGS", coupled windows in the centre, a former window to the left altered as a doorway, and in the splayed corner a square-headed doorway with moulded surround and panelled door. Above the door is the moulded corbel to a right-angled 2-storey oriel which has a shaped parapet, above this a canted 3-light window which has a parapet with strap-work panels and urn finials, and at top floor a 2-light window and parapet inscribed "LANGLEY BUILDINGS". Otherwise, the main facade is symmetrical, with a recessed centre bay almost filled by a rectangular oriel with pilasters tiered through 3 floors, and finished with a parapet like the other, and flanked by exceptionally narrow sashed windows in the re-entrants. All windows sashed without glazing bars. Ten-bay return wall of brick, with semi-octagonal pilasters finished as short pinnacles, and coupled sashed windows. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8415897815