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
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Warehouse
Address
Brazil House, 105 and 107, Princess Street, M1 6DD
OS grid reference
SJ 842 978
Coordinates
53.47673, -2.23892
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brazil House is a pair of shipping warehouses, now used as offices, built around 1870-1880 and altered since. The structure is made of yellow brick with sandstone dressings and has a trapeziform plan situated at right angles to the street, featuring a rear loading bay. The building showcases an eclectic architectural style with some Gothic elements. It stands four storeys tall over basements and has a symmetrical façade with two sets of two windows, where the outer windows are tripartite.

Key features include a chamfered plinth, saw-tooth sill-bands on all floors, and impost bands on all floors except the top one, topped with a heavily bracketed cornice. The ground floor features tall coupled doorways in the center, framed by pilaster jambs and carved stiff-leaf imposts, with five-stepped segmental-arched heads that include keyblocks. These doorways are flanked by tripartite windows that have segmental-arched center lights and moulded surrounds with stiff-leaf imposts.

The upper floors contain square-headed tripartite windows in the outer bays and single-light windows above the doors, with the first and second floors featuring pilaster jambs and the lower ones having stilted moulded heads. All windows are sashed without glazing bars. The roof has a lift-head, while the return sides are simpler, with windows grouped in sets of four, four, four, and two, and loading bay entrances at the rear. The building forms a group with No. 103 to the left and No. 109 to the right.

Local climate

Brazil House 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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