Righton Building

MANCHESTER

SJ8497 CAVENDISH STREET 698-1/20/591 (South side) 11/06/91 Chorlton-On-Medlock Righton Building

GV II

Formerly known as: Cavendish House CAVENDISH STREET Chorlton-On-Medlock. Draper's shop and showrooms, now annex to school of art. 1905, altered. White glazed brick and buff terracotta, slate and glass roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered corner. Two storeys over cellars, 5 windows to Cavendish Street plus the corner to the left; ground floor altered; terracotta sill-band, frieze, cornice and shaped parapet, the centre arched with a finial and displaying a banner with raised lettering "A.D. RIGHTON 1905"; transomed canted oriel windows of 8 lights to the centre and 6 lights to the outer bays and the corner. Left return side (to Higher Ormond Street), 11 bays, the first 5 altered at ground floor as the front, the next 3 with oval windows at ground floor, and the last 3 with oriel windows and a doorway, all with a plain frieze and dentilled cornice, and at 1st floor canted 8-light oriels alternating with transomed 6-light windows, a segmental-arched upstand to the parapet over each of the latter, with moulded terracotta decoration. Interior: central atrium with gallery of superimposed cast-iron columns, the lower with open-work brackets forming elliptical arches and the upper with Corinthian capitals supporting a panelled frieze, with set-back glazed screen walls to both floors, Art Nouveau wrought-iron balustrades to the gallery, and a glazed roof supported by slender iron trusses with open-work spandrels.

Listing NGR: SJ8425196984