109 And 111, Portland Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/310 (South East side) Nos.109 AND 111

GV II

Various warehouses (and office of Venezuela Vice Consulate in 1905), now partly bar and nightclub but mostly undergoing renovation at time of survey. c.1860-70. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan parallel to street with loading at rear. Eclectic style. Basement with sub-basement, 5 and 4 storeys with attics, 3+2 bays; banded pilasters and bracketed cornice to ground floor (continued from Nos 105-7, q.v.), sill-bands to 3rd and 4th floors, bracketed eaves cornice, mansard roofs with dormers. No.109 is a symmetrical 3-bay composition, the centre breaking forwards slightly, and has a wide segmental-headed entrance archway with panelled pilasters and reveals and projected cornice on enriched consoles, and an internal flight of steps to recessed sliding double doors; sashed windows which are square-headed at ground floor, round-headed at 1st floor, segmental-headed at 3rd and 4th floors, diminishing in the height and most coupled, with various enrichments; and 3 dormers with pedimented stone architraves. No.111 to the right is 2 bays in matching design (minus the 4th floor) with the entrance in the 2nd bay. The rear has 2 sections of full-height glazing, one tripartite and the other bipartite, with integral loading doors. INTERIOR: 5 rows of iron columns and wooden beams; remains of showroom decoration at 1st floor. Forms group with No.103, and Nos 105 and 107 to left (q.v.), and with Nos 113 to 119 to right (q.v.), together comprising a complete block of former warehouses.

Listing NGR: SJ8412697827