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

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/12/2017

SJ 8497 NW, 698-1/32/327

MANCHESTER, PRINCESS STREET (south-west side), No. 36

(Formerly listed as: No. 36 Manchester Chinese Chamber of Commerce)

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Includes: No. 75, FAULKNER STREET, and No. 94, PORTLAND STREET.

Shipping warehouses, Manchester Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Community Centre, etc when surveyed. Probably c.1870-80; altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of sandstone ashlar (roof not visible). Rectangular plan with curved corners, on island site. Eclectic style with some Gothic details. Four storeys over basement, ten windows plus the corners; symmetrical; band dividing the upper and lower two floors, frieze with carved ornament between pairs of brackets to cornice; central round-headed doorway with rusticated jambs and moulded head with carved cresting; sashed windows without glazing bars, those at ground floor with shouldered heads and pilaster jambs, those at first floor with stilted heads and set-in shafts which have knobbly foliated caps, those at second floor with shaped heads and those at third floor with set-in shafts. Return sides have running arcaded fenestration, the windows at first floor round-headed with foliated caps to the columns, those at second floor segmental-headed, and those at third beyond the third bay in a continuous band behind a screen of colonnettes. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8412797898