32 and 34 Laystall Street is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Warehouse. 2 related planning applications.
32 and 34 Laystall Street
- WRENN ID
- floating-vault-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- 32 and 34 Laystall Street, M1 2JZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 849 982
- Coordinates
- 53.48106, -2.22795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
32 and 34 Laystall Street is a garment warehouse built in 1838, with some alterations. The building features red brick in Flemish bond, accented with moulded buff and white terracotta, and has a rectangular plan. It showcases an eclectic style with Romanesque elements. The three-storey facade has five windows and is symmetrical, with the central bay projecting forward.
The centre includes a segmental-headed waggon doorway surrounded by terracotta detailing, which features shafts and a keystone. Above this, there is a first-floor oriel window with two round-headed lights and a Tudor-flower band. The second floor has an arcaded three-light window, and above it, the lettering "ESTABLISHED 1838" is attached.
On either side of the central entrance, there are round-headed doorways at ground level, round-headed windows on the first floor, and square-headed windows on the second floor. Coupled windows are present on all floors, with square-headed ones at ground and second levels, and round-headed ones on the first floor set within large round-headed blank arches, all featuring Tudor-flower sill-bands. The windows are richly decorated with moulded terracotta, including twisted shafts with foliated caps. The building also has enriched bracketed eaves, showcasing an unusual degree of High Victorian decoration for a relatively small structure.
Local climate
32 and 34 Laystall Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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