Nos. 1-7 PRINCESS STREET, Nos. 59 and 61, CROSS STREET

MANCHESTER,

SJ8398SE, PRINCESS STREET, 698-1/27/320, (North East side), Nos.1 TO 7 (Odd)

03/10/74

GV

II

Includes: Nos.59 AND 61 CROSS STREET. Shops and offices. 1877, by Pennington and Bridgen; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, red tiled roof. Curved trapeziform plan on end-of-block site. Gothic style. Four storeys and attic, eight windows including corner and Cross Street side; stone ground floor and frieze with Tudor-flower and grotesque ornament; slender chamfered shafts of brick and stone rising to a large gable in each main facade and two small gables over the corner, all with tourelles and finials and linked by open-work parapets, stone spirelet to end of Cross Street facade, steeply-pitched roof with small hipped dormers and large clustered chimneys. Ground floor of each facade has two wide elliptical-arched windows with moulded heads, a 2-centred arched doorway to the left of the Princess Street facade, with carved enrichment and traceried overlight (C20 shopfronts inserted in corner); 1st and 2nd floors have tiered mullion-and transom windows to the gabled bays, those in the main facades canted and those at the corner bowed, all with terracotta traceried panels between the floors and elaborately traceried open-work parapets, and various other transomed windows; 3rd floor has mostly 2-light windows with Gothic enrichment, including 2 in the Princess Street facade with carved stone gablets; gables have 2-centred arched windows with tracery.

Listing NGR: SJ8384798200