The Portland Thistle Hotel

MANCHESTER, SJ8498SW, PORTLAND STREET, 698-1/28/299, (South East side), Nos.3, 5 AND 9

The Portland Thistle Hotel

(Formerly Listed as: PORTLAND STREET (South East side) Nos.3, 5 AND 9 Magnum Hotel)

18/12/63

GV

II

Formerly known as: No.9 Brown's Warehouse PORTLAND STREET. Three home trade warehouses, No.9 formerly known as Brown's Warehouse; now all in one as hotel. 1851 and later, by Edward Walters; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roofs. Rectangular plan. Italian palazzo style. No.3 is four storeys and six bays; No.5 is five storeys and seven bays, with attic (plus added attic); No.9 is four storeys and seven bays; all formerly with basements but rebuilt except for the facades, and all symmetrical. No.3 to the left has a dentilled cornice to ground floor, banded quoins to upper floors, interrupted cornice to 1st floor, giant pilaster strips to 2nd and 3rd floors, bracketed main cornice and pilastered parapet; arcaded basement and ground floor with paired pilasters, round-headed arches with moulded heads and voluted keystones (except former doorway in 2nd bay which has mask), and carved spandrels including roundels; upper floors have windows with moulded architraves, those at 1st floor segmental-headed with volute keystones, those at 2nd floor with segmental pediments on consoles, and those at 3rd floor with shouldered architraves. No.5, similarly arcaded at ground floor but with richly decorated segmental-headed doorway in centre, has modillioned cornice over 2nd floor with acroteria, banded quoins up to that level, giant pilasters to 3rd and 4th floors, prominent main cornice with dentils and modillions, and attic storey treated as a parapet, with banded pilasters to the outer bays (C20 slated mansard attic above this; square-headed windows to all upper floors, those at 1st floor with enriched architraves and segmental pediments, the others mostly plain, and small 2-light mullioned attic windows. No.9 to the right has rusticated arcading to ground floor, with massive plinth and imposts, central round-headed doorway with cavetto surround, stepped voussoirs, mask keystone and corner cartouches; cornice over ground floor, banded corner pilasters above this, prominent modillioned cornice and balustraded parapet; windows segmental-headed at 1st and 2nd floors and round-headed at 3rd floor, with vertically-linked architraves, those at 1st floor shouldered with carved friezes and cornices on consoles, those at 2nd floor with segmental pediments, and those at 3rd floor with keyed hoodmoulds. Right-hand return wall, 12 bays in similar style, with former loading bay entrance at rear end. All three portions have altered glazing to all windows.

Listing NGR: SJ8448598178