Harvest House

Harvest House is a textile warehouse that was later converted into shops, built in 1839 by Edward Walters for Richard Cobden. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, and its roof is concealed. It has a rectangular plan that runs at right angles to the street and is designed in the Italian palazzo style.

The facade features six bays and was originally four storeys high with a basement and attic, although the basement and ground floor have been altered to create a high single-storey shop front. The upper floors retain their architectural details, including rusticated quoins at the corners and the inner sides of the outer bays up to the second floor, a decorative band over the third floor, and a prominent modillioned cornice. The attic storey is topped with a parapet.

All windows are segmental-headed recessed sashes. The first-floor windows in the outer bays are set under segmental stone lintels with triple keystones, while the recesses of the four-bay center extend from the first to the second floor, creating the appearance of a giant pilastered arcade. The heads of all second-floor windows are linked by stilted hoodmoulds with triple keystones. Most windows on the main floors feature margin panes, and the attic has six-pane sashes in square recesses with brick dentils.

This building marks Edward Walters' first work in Manchester and is likely the first warehouse design in the city inspired by the palazzo style.