Central House

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/334 (South West side) 03/10/74 No.74 Central House

GV II

Shipping warehouse. 1880, by Corson and Aitken, renovated 1989. Red brick with red sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof with obelisk finials. Almost rectangular plan at right-angles to street and parallel to Rochdale Canal on north side (this wall following a slight northward bend in the canal). Scottish Baronial style. Four storeys with basement and attic, a 5-window range between large corner tourelles which rise from moulded corbels at 1st floor and terminate in slated conical spires at attic level; with a sill-band to ground floor, string-course to 1st floor, sill-band to 2nd floor, string-course over 3rd floor, and attic dormers breaking through the eaves, the 2nd and 4th with crow-stepped steeply-pitched gables finished with coupled cylindrical chimneys. Heavily-moulded doorway next to right-hand tourelle, with balustraded balcony over; 1st-floor windows of 1:2:1:2:1 lights (the outer ones smaller), otherwise single-light sashes on all floors, those at 2nd floor segmental-headed; attic windows with moulded stone architraves, the 1st, 3rd and 5th with segmental pediments (2nd and 4th in the gables). Rectangular lancet windows to the tourelles. Interior not inspected. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8426197708