66 And 68, Fountain Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW FOUNTAIN STREET 698-1/28/138 (West side) 28/06/74 Nos.66 AND 68

GV II

Commercial building (perhaps warehouse or offices). Dated 1868 on doorway to Booth Street; slightly altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Triangular plan on acutely-angled corner site, with very narrow 1-bay entrance front at south end. Venetian Gothic style. Four-storey 8-window facade to Fountain Street, symmetrical, with vermiculated rustication to the basement, sill-bands to all floors (the top 2 with saw-tooth bands under them), prominent bracketed cornice, steeply-pitched roof with inserted attic windows; wide segmental-headed arch in centre of ground floor with deeply-recessed window, flanked by 3-light windows which have round-headed lights with 2-centred arched banded extradoses, and shafts with carved capitals, these openings linked by foliated imposts; windows at 1st and 2nd floors in similar style, grouped 3, 2 and 3, those at 1st floor stilted; continuous arcade of stilted windows at 3rd floor. One-bay south end has round-headed doorway in stone surround, with shafts (1 twisted and 1 of polished granite), carved capitals and foliated imposts, 2-centred arched hoodmould, panelled door and plain fanlight; 2-light windows at 1st and 2nd floors, single-light window at 3rd floor. Booth Street facade, 9 windows in matching style and similar doorway at north end, with carved tympanum, and lettered roundels in the spandrels (monogram to left, "1868" to right). Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8401198137