Orient House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Warehouse. 4 related planning applications.
Orient House
- WRENN ID
- waiting-bonework-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Orient House, 65 and 67, Granby Row, M1 7AP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 844 976
- Coordinates
- 53.47499, -2.23632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orient House is a shipping or packing warehouse built in 1914 by G.H. Goldsmith. It features a steel frame with a facade made of white matt-glazed terracotta and sides of rectilinear glass curtain walling, with the roof concealed. The building has a large rectangular plan that runs parallel to the street and is designed in a classical style, despite its otherwise functional nature.
It stands nine storeys tall over a basement, but the facade presents six storeys with attics. The composition is symmetrical with a ratio of 1:7:1 bays, where the ends project slightly forward. The ground and first floors are designed with rustic channelled rustication and cornices, while the next three storeys form a seven-bay giant colonnade featuring fluted Ionic columns and pilastered end bays. Above the colonnade is an enriched frieze, followed by a low fifth floor with a prominent modillioned cornice and various decorative elements. The ends have full attic storeys, with set-back attics over the center and tall chimneys.
Entrances are located in the third and seventh bays, each with projected doorcases that have shallow pediments on consoles and acroteria on top. The building has three-light windows on all floors, with those in the end bays mostly featuring mullions and cornices, while the colonnade windows are steel framed and canted on the first two levels. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Orient House 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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