15 AND 17, PICCADILLY (See details for further address information)

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW PICCADILLY 698-1/28/282 (North side) 20/06/88 Nos.15 AND 17

GV II

Includes: Nos.5 TO 11 OLDHAM STREET. Includes: Nos.1 TO 3 OLDHAM STREET. Offices. 1881, by Royle and Bennett; altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on corner site. Eclectic style with some Gothic features. Five storeys and attic, 3 bays to Piccadilly, plus a narrow canted corner, 4 wide bays to Oldham Street. Ground floor altered. Chamfered piers to most upper floors, panelled friezes between 1st and 2nd floors, stylised Lombard friezes over 2nd floor, bracketed cornice over 3rd floor, ramped parapets over 4th floor, steeply-pitched roof with gable dormers; square corner oriel tiered above 1st floor and finished as a small turret with slated spirelet. Each floor has full-width multiple-light windows in each bay (4, 2 and 3 lights to the front, 4, 4, 2+2 and 2+2 in the return side to Oldham Street), those at 1st and 4th floors with square-headed lights, those at 2nd floor with arched lights, and those at 3rd floor with recessed trefoil-headed lights in arcades of 2-centred arches which have polished granite shafts with stiff-leaf capitals; all these windows sashed without glazing bars. Multiple-flue chimney stacks. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8437098358