49 AND 51, DALE STREET (See details for further address information)

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE DALE STREET 698-1/29/86 (East side) 17/09/92 Nos.49 AND 51

GV II

Includes: Nos.30 AND 32 HILTON STREET. Home trade warehouses, various. c.1900. Iron frame with cladding of red brick and matching terracotta, and some sandstone dressings, with slate roof to the front and flat asphalted roof over the rest. Irregular U-plan formed by a long rectangular range between Dale Street at the front and Hilton Street at the rear, a range parallel to Hilton Street bridging Lizard Street, and a wing to this returned along Tariff Street. Basement and 5 storeys (except range along China Lane, which is 4 storeys). The shallow front office block, symmetrical, 3 bays between chamfered corners, has pilasters to the narrower centre bay finished as chimneys on the parapet, string courses above and below the 2nd floor, a cornice and parapet over the top floor; mullioned windows of 2 lights in the centre and 3 lights in the outer bays, all sashed and those of the top 3 floors shorter; round-headed doorways in the corners (that to the right altered as a window), with keystones and cornices on brackets, and sashed windows on each floor above (those at 1st and 2nd floor in narrow rectangular oriels). The short return walls have chimneys corbelled from the 1st floor. The 4-storey rear range has coupled sashed windows in the front half, and an iron-framed rear section with 2 loading slots and 6-light casement windows. The rear range (to Tariff Street) is 4 storeys plus attic, 10 bays, and has, inter alia, 3 pairs of elliptical-arched bays (those in the centre bridging the entry to Lizard Street), a prominent cornice on corbelled shafts, and large attic windows under a cornice with shaped parapet. The return side to Tariff Street is 8 bays in matching style. Interior: cast-iron columns, wrought-iron girders, wooden beams. History: in 1905 No.49 occupied by Wm.O'Hanlon & Co, merchants, No.51 by Wm Holt & Sons, manufacturers; all now occupied by O'Hanlon.

Listing NGR: SJ8470098279