No. 36, PRINCESS STREET, No. 94, PORTLAND STREET, and No. 75, FAULKNER STREET

No. 36 on Princess Street, along with No. 94 on Portland Street and No. 75 on Faulkner Street, is a group of shipping warehouses that also served as the Manchester Chinese Chamber of Commerce and a community centre. Likely built between 1870 and 1880, the buildings have been altered over time. They are probably iron-framed and clad in sandstone ashlar, with a rectangular plan and curved corners, situated on an island site. The architectural style is eclectic with some Gothic details.

The structure has four storeys above a basement and features ten windows plus the corners, arranged symmetrically. A band separates the upper and lower two floors, with a frieze adorned with carved ornament between pairs of brackets leading to the cornice. The central round-headed doorway has rusticated jambs and a moulded head with carved cresting. The sashed windows lack glazing bars; those on the ground floor have shouldered heads and pilaster jambs, while the first-floor windows have stilted heads and set-in shafts topped with knobbly foliated caps. The second-floor windows have shaped heads, and the third-floor windows feature set-in shafts. The return sides display running arcaded fenestration, with first-floor windows being round-headed with foliated caps on the columns, second-floor windows being segmental-headed, and third-floor windows beyond the third bay arranged in a continuous band behind a screen of colonnettes. This building is part of an uninterrupted linear group of similar structures along this side of Princess Street.