66 And 68, Fountain Street is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1974. Commercial building. 5 related planning applications.
66 And 68, Fountain Street
- WRENN ID
- last-zinc-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
66 and 68 Fountain Street is a commercial building, possibly used as a warehouse or offices, dated 1868 on the doorway to Booth Street. The building has been slightly altered and is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It is situated on an acutely-angled corner site with a very narrow one-bay entrance front at the south end and is designed in the Venetian Gothic style.
The four-storey facade facing Fountain Street features eight symmetrical windows. The basement has vermiculated rustication, and all floors have sill-bands, with the top two floors displaying saw-tooth bands beneath them. A prominent bracketed cornice crowns the steeply-pitched roof, which includes inserted attic windows. The ground floor has a wide segmental-headed arch at the center, with a deeply-recessed window flanked by three-light windows that have round-headed lights and two-centred arched banded extradoses, supported by shafts with carved capitals. These openings are linked by foliated imposts. The first and second floors have similar windows, arranged in groups of three, two, and three, with the first-floor windows being stilted. The third floor features a continuous arcade of stilted windows.
At the one-bay south end, there is a round-headed doorway with a stone surround, featuring shafts—one twisted and one of polished granite—carved capitals, and foliated imposts, topped with a two-centred arched hoodmould. The door is panelled with a plain fanlight above. The first and second floors have two-light windows, while the third floor has a single-light window. The Booth Street facade includes nine windows in a matching style and a similar doorway at the north end, which has a carved tympanum and lettered roundels in the spandrels, with a monogram to the left and "1868" to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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