Clayton House, 59, Piccadilly and 61 Piccadilly

Clayton House, located at 59 and 61 Piccadilly in Manchester, is a restaurant, warehousing, and office building constructed in 1907 by architects Walter and George Harry Higginbottom. The building features a Portland stone facade with a brown terracotta ground floor and a slate roof. It has a long, narrow rectangular plan that runs at right angles to the street and is designed in the Jacobean Baroque style.

The structure is six storeys tall and has three symmetrical bays. The ground floor is marked by a small cornice, with panels above the outer fourth-floor windows displaying the name "CLAYTON HOUSE." A prominent cornice over the fourth floor is adorned with mutules and egg-and-dart detailing, while a dentilled cornice over the fifth floor features a broken pediment inscribed with "AD MCMVII." The ground floor includes doorways on the left and right, both framed with pedimented surrounds, and the left doorway has a frieze that reads "CLAYTON HOUSE." A 20th-century shop window is situated between the doorways. The upper floors are characterized by mullion-and-transom windows, primarily with six lights, including a canted oriel that extends from the second to the fourth floors. The second-floor windows in the outer bays have triangular pediments, and the third-floor oriel features a segmental pediment with a lion-mask cartouche. All these windows are complemented by ornamental wrought-iron balconies. The building also has tall chimneys with cornices at the gables.

Clayton House is part of a group of buildings that includes Nos 47, 49, 51, 53, and 55 to 57 Piccadilly, as well as the gabled return of Nos 1 to 11 Newton Street.