113-119, PORTLAND STREET

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/312 (South East side) Nos.113 TO 119 (Odd)

GV II

Manufacturers' home trade warehouse and shipping warehouse, now offices etc. c.1860-70, altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Irregular plan on corner site, with loading at rear. Utilitarian design with some Italian Gothic features. Four storeys and basement, 16 windows (some coupled); stone basement with weathered plinth, sill-bands to all floors, simplified Lombard friezes over most windows except the top floor, elaborated Lombard frieze of brick to moulded stone cornice. Basement and ground floor altered except in the last 3 bays (and right-hand return side to Dickinson Street), which have elaborately decorated cast-iron railings to the basement openings and coupled sashed windows with stone mullions and heads; upper floors have single (a) and coupled (b) windows arranged a-b-a-a-b-a-a-b-b-b-a, those at 1st floor square-headed, those at 2nd floor segmental-headed, and those at 3rd floor stilted segmental with stepped heads and linked hoodmoulds. Right-hand return wall, 10 bays in matching style, with wide segmental-headed loading bay entrance in 6th bay. Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with No.103, Nos 105 and 107, and Nos 109 and 111 to left (q.v.), together comprising a complete block of former warehouses.

Listing NGR: SJ8411297813