Lindencourt House

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW CHARLOTTE STREET 698-1/28/49 (South side) 03/10/74 No.34 Lindencort House

GV II

Includes: No.39 FAULKNER STREET. Textile merchants' warehouse, now also bar and offices. 1855, by Edward Walters; altered. Light red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Shallow rectangular plan parallel to street, with loading in left side wall. Simplified Italian palazzo style. Basement and 5 storeys, a 6-window facade, with channelled plinth, quoins, sill-bands to all floors, and moulded cornice. The ground floor has in the 4th bay a large round-headed stone doorway with channelled cavetto surround, swagged spandrels and a cornice; and round-headed windows with keystones linked to the sill-band above. The upper floors have segmental-headed windows with keystones. All these windows have recessed 4-pane sashes (except those at top floor which have 4-pane altered glazing). The right-hand side wall, 3 bays in matching style, has a large round-headed stone doorway to the 3rd bay (39 Faulkner Street). The left side wall (to Reyner Street) has, inter alia, a full-height former loading slot (now blocked). INTERIOR: open-well staircase with open string, 2 stout turned balusters per tread, and broad mahogany handrail with large raised grip; otherwise, not inspected. Forms part of a group of 5 similar buildings on this side of the street, 4 of them by the same architect.

Listing NGR: SJ8423798024