22, Dale Street

This is a textiles warehouse, later used as garment showrooms, built around 1900. It is located on Dale Street in Manchester and forms an L-shape with frontages to Dale Street and Lever Street, creating a corner turret. The building is constructed with a cast-iron frame and features a striking facade of blood-red brick in Flemish bond, with dressings of red sandstone and polished grey granite, alongside glazed white brick at the side and rear. The roof is concealed.

The warehouse has a basement and two-and-a-half main storeys, plus a two-storey attic. It has eight bays facing Dale Street and four bays facing Lever Street. A plinth runs around the base, with a sill band separating the second and third floors. A prominent bracketed cornice tops the building, with a parapet along Dale Street and gables in the attic storey facing Lever Street.

The three-sided corner features a three-bay open arcade with round-headed arches supported by polished granite columns. Above the arcade are sashed windows on each floor, and a hexagonal, two-stage attic turret with smaller sashed windows and an apex finial.

The Lever Street facade is symmetrical, featuring a central two-bay section with giant round-headed arched windows, pilastered surrounds, and carved spandrels. Above are panelled bands, shallow canted three-light windows at the second floor, and two-light windows on the third floor, recessed under corbel-tables. Stone mullioned windows are located in the outer bays, with the lower floor windows being taller and featuring triple-arched cornices. The attic has three- and two-light mullioned windows and pedimented gabled dormers above the outer bays.

The Dale Street facade has eight regular bays, with a vertical division between the lower and upper storeys. The lower half has tall, coupled windows on both floors, linked by architraves with swan-neck pediments. Decorated panels are positioned between the floors. The upper half features shallow canted tripartite windows at the second floor and coupled windows above, also recessed under corbel-tables. A shallow canted oriel window sits above a loading entrance at the end bay. A low, ramped parapet is between piers, and the setback attic has altered windows on the lower level and three-light mullioned windows above. Most windows are sashed, without glazing bars. The interior was not inspected.

The building is included in the register for its group value.