47, Dale Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE DALE STREET 698-1/29/85 (East side) No.47

GV II

Merchants' warehouse (with No.45 to left, q.v.); now textiles wholesalers' premises. Later C19; altered. Red brick in stretcher bond (painted white at ground floor) with some sandstone dressings, slate roof. Long narrow rectangular plan. Basement and 2+2 storeys, 4-window front with pilastered corners, sill-band to 2nd floor, terracotta "corbel table" to prominent moulded cornice, and low parapet. Doorway in 2nd bay has brick pilasters with stone imposts and segmental canopy over decorated lintel (door now covered by roller blind), former window to left altered as doorway, basement and ground floor windows to right with fixed plain glazing, and over each window a large swag; recessed sashed windows on upper floors with stone sills and lintels; some small bands of saw-toothed and egg-and-dart terracotta decoration to the heads and sills. Long south side (to Lizard Street) in 2 portions: a 6-window range with segmental-headed windows, mostly 4-pane sashes; and beyond this a continuation which has (inter alia) 4 large rectangular former loading doorways, mostly blocked or altered, but with remains of wall-cranes beside the 3rd and 4th. (Continued to rear is range which is rear wing of 30 and 32 Hilton Street, q.v.) Interior not inspected. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8465598278