49 Piccadilly is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Warehouse, offices, public house. 6 related planning applications.
49 Piccadilly
- WRENN ID
- ancient-jamb-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Warehouse, offices, public house
- Address
- 49 Piccadilly, M1 2AP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 844 982
- Coordinates
- 53.48114, -2.23515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
49 Piccadilly is a clothiers' warehouse built between 1846 and 1847, now serving as offices with a public house on the ground floor. It was constructed for JP and E Westhead and was rebuilt after a fire in 1850, with a mansard roof added between 1886 and 1917. By 1917, it was occupied by Chorlton Brothers, clothiers.
The building is made of red brick with sandstone dressings and features a slate roof. It has a deep rectangular plan and is designed in a simplified palazzo style. The structure is five storeys tall with an attic and has a symmetrical seven-window facade. Notable architectural features include rusticated quoins, a plain frieze, a modillioned cornice, a brick parapet with stone pilasters and chimneys, and a large attic dormer.
The ground floor has been altered, but it retains a square-headed doorway on the right with an enriched surround. The upper floors have regular fenestration, with all windows of equal height and moulded architraves. The first and second-floor windows are shouldered, while the lower ones have aprons and pediments, with the central one featuring a swan-necked pediment. The upper windows have cornices, except for the central one, which is pedimented, and the third-floor windows are eared, with the central window having a segmental open pediment. The first-floor glazing has been altered, while the upper floors have eight-pane casements. A full-width glazed dormer is located in the slope of the roof, featuring a three-span hipped roof.
The rear and interior of the building were not inspected. It forms a group with No. 47 to the left and Nos 51, 53, 55, 57, and 59 and 61 to the right.
Local climate
49 Piccadilly sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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