Brazil House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Warehouse. 7 related planning applications.
Brazil House
- WRENN ID
- deep-arch-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Warehouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/342 (North East side) 03/10/74 Nos.105 AND 107 Brazil House
GV II
Pair of shipping warehouses, now offices, etc. c.1870-80; altered. Yellow brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Trapeziform plan on island site, at right-angles to street, with rear loading bay. Eclectic style, with some Gothic features. Four storeys over basements, 2+2 windows (the outer windows tripartite), symmetrical; with chamfered plinth, saw-tooth sill-bands to all floors, impost bands to all except the top floor, heavily bracketed cornice. The ground floor has tall coupled doorways in the centre, with pilaster jambs, carved stiff-leaf imposts, and 5-stepped segmental-arched heads with keyblocks, flanked by tripartite windows with segmental-arched centre lights and moulded surrounds with stiff-leaf imposts; the upper floors all have square-headed tripartite windows to the outer bays and single-light windows over the doors, those at 1st and 2nd floors with pilaster jambs and the lower with stilted moulded heads. All these windows sashed without glazing bars. Lift-head on roof. Return sides very simple, with windows grouped 4, 4, 4 and 2; loading bay entrances at rear end. Interior not inspected. Forms group with No.103 to left (q.v.) and 109 to right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8424097802
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