Numbers 25 To 31 And Attached Former Chapel

MANCHESTER

SJ8397NW, 698-1/30/34

BYROM STREET (East side), Nos. 25 to 31 (odd) and attached former chapel

25/02/52

GV

II

Terrace row of four town houses, now offices. Late C18, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Double-depth plan, each house single-fronted, with back extensions. Three storeys over cellars, 3+2+3+3 windows; moulded gutter cornice; doorways to the left, all 4-centred arched with attached Gothick doorcases composed of clustered shafts terminating in pinnacles and ogival heads with finials, and those at nos. 25 and 27 with delicate Gothick tracery in the fanlights; sashed windows with raised sills and flat-arched heads, those at nos. 25 and 27 all 12-paned (but including a tripartite sash at ground floor of no. 27), and the others mostly without glazing bars. Large multiple-flue chimneys crossing the ridge. Rear of no. 31 has attached early C19 chapel with gabled ends, openings bricked up, and coped parapets. Interiors not inspected. Forms group with similar houses in St John Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8336697903