Canada House

Canada House is a packing warehouse built in 1909 by W and G Higginbottom. It is located on an island site in Manchester, on Chepstow Street. The building has a trapezoidal plan and is constructed with a cast-iron frame and a steel truss roof, clad in buff glazed terracotta. The design is in the Art Nouveau style.

The warehouse is five storeys high with a basement and double attics. The west facade, which has ten bays, features slender piers that terminate as octagonal pinnacles with domed caps. There is a cornice to the ground floor and a modillioned cornice to the third floor, with separate cornices above each bay on the fourth floor. The ground floor windows are segmental-headed, ten-light units with transoms arched in the centre lights, creating a wave-like line. A small doorway is located in the sixth bay. The windows on the first, second, and third floors are set within giant segmental-headed arches, with moulded decoration between the floors. The first and second floors mainly feature cross-window casements, while the second and third floors have shallow canted oriels in bays two, three, five, six, eight, and nine. The third-floor windows have glazing matching that of the ground floor. The fourth-floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars in the upper leaves, each topped by a cornice and a stylised segmental pediment with a triple-keystone. There are two tiers of attics, the upper tier set back.

The north facade, slightly convex and also in the matching style, has a main entrance in the third bay, featuring a round-headed arch in a neo-Baroque style, with a lion-mask keyblock, Art Nouveau wrought-iron gates, and inner doors. The building has a curved left corner and a one-bay return along the rear, using the same style and materials. The south end is also in matching style. The rear of the building consists of an iron frame with octagonal piers and glazed panels, and includes a loading doorway with a wall-crane. The interior was not inspected.