22, Dale Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE DALE STREET 698-1/29/78 (South West side) No.22

GV II

Textiles warehouse, now garment showrooms etc. c.1900. Cast-iron frame, cladding of blood-red brick in Flemish bond with dressings of red sandstone and some polished grey granite (side and rear of glazed white brick), roof concealed. L-plan formed by front ranges to Dale Street and Lever Street hinged on a canted corner finished as a turret, plus a rear wing to the Dale Street range; with loading bay at the south end. Eclectic style. Basement and 2+2 storeys with 2-storey attic, 8 bays to Dale Street and 4 bays to Lever Street. Plinth (interrupted by sloped basement windows), sill-band between 2nd and 3rd floors, prominent bracketed cornice, parapet to Dale Street and attic storey with gables to Lever Street. The 3-sided corner has a canted 3-bay open arcade of round-headed and banded arches on polished granite columns, sashed windows on each floor above, and a hexagonal 2-stage attic turret with smaller sashed windows on both levels and an apex finial. The Lever Street facade to the right (the architectural front) is a symmetrical 4-bay composition with a 2-bay centre which has coupled giant round-headed arched windows with banded pilastered surrounds and carved spandrels, a panelled band above these, shallow canted 3-light windows at 2nd floor and 2-light windows at 3rd floor, recessed under corbel-tables; 3-light stone mullioned windows in the outer bays, those on the 2 lower floors taller and with triple-arched cornices at 1st floor; an attic storey with 3- and 2-light mullioned windows, and pedimented gabled 3-light dormers over the outer bays. The Dale Street facade to the left has 8 regular bays (except over the loading-bay entrance at the end), with a vertical division between the 2 lower and the 2 upper floors: the lower half has tall coupled windows on both floors linked by 2-storey architraves with swan-neck pediments, and decorated panels between the floors; the upper half has shallow canted tripartite windows at 2nd floor and coupled windows above, recessed under corbel-tables; the end bay has a shallow canted 2-storey oriel over the loading entrance. Low parapet ramped between piers; set-back attic with altered wndows on the lower level and 3-light mullioned windows above. Most windows sashed without glazing bars. Interior not inspected. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8453298355