14 AND 16, PRINCESS STREET (See details for further address information)

Numbers 14 and 16 on Princess Street in Manchester are a pair of offices and a home trade warehouse, now used as a bank and offices. Built around 1860 to 1870, the building features red brick with sandstone dressings and has a rectangular plan that runs parallel to the street, with curved corners. It stands four storeys high over basements and has a window arrangement of 4:2:4, plus three-window corners. The structure includes a stone plinth and pilaster strips that frame the centre, with sill-bands on all floors that have saw-tooth courses below the windows. A bracketed cornice and balustraded parapet complete the top.

The ground floor is arcaded, featuring panelled pilasters, moulded imposts, and stilted segmental arches with keystones. There is a square-headed doorway in the fourth bay, while the other bays have sashed windows, although two bays on the right-hand end and the corner now have a 20th-century bank front. The upper floors have windows with moulded architraves; the first-floor windows have cornices, the second-floor windows are segmental-headed with keystones and cornices, and the third-floor windows also have keystones. The windows in the centre and corners of the first and second floors are more elaborately designed, with swagged cartouches and masks on the first-floor heads and balustraded balconies on the second floor. Most windows are sashed without glazing bars. The five-bay returned ends are similar in style.