105-113, DEANSGATE (See details for further address information)

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE DEANSGATE 698-1/27/104 (East side) 03/10/74 Nos.105 TO 113 (Odd)

GV II

Includes: Nos.5 TO 15 JOHN DALTON STREET. Commercial building with offices over shops and bank. 1876, by Pennington and Bridgen; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Large trapeziform plan on island site, with canted corners. Gothic style. Four storeys over cellars, 5 bays to Deansgate (plus the corners), symmetrical; with polygonal piers, string courses and sill-bands (the topmost with grotesques projected from the piers), the corners and alternate bays with shallow canted oriels to the 1st and 2nd floors and gables above. C20 shop-fronts at ground floor, and at the right-hand corner a canted 3-bay open arcade of moulded 2-centred arches (the centre larger) carried on 2 columns of polished granite with carved caps, various forms of enrichment including honeycombed spandrels and parapet with quatrefoils; mullioned and transomed windows on all floors (except the outer bays which have single-light windows), all with leaded glazing in arched upper lights; embattled parapet to corner oriel; steeply-pitched gables with quatrefoils and finials. Seven-bay return side to John Dalton Street in similar style but assymmetrical, lacking the gables, and with the former bank front of 3 large mullioned windows and an arched doorway at ground floor.

Listing NGR: SJ8368398258