113-119, PORTLAND STREET

Nos. 113 to 119 on Portland Street in Manchester is a former manufacturers' home trade warehouse and shipping warehouse, now used as offices, built around 1860 to 1870 and altered since. The building is constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and has an irregular plan on a corner site, featuring a loading area at the rear. Its utilitarian design incorporates some Italian Gothic elements.

The structure stands four storeys tall with a basement and has 16 windows, some of which are coupled. The stone basement has a weathered plinth, and there are sill-bands on all floors. Most windows are adorned with simplified Lombard friezes, except for the top floor, which features a more elaborate Lombard frieze made of brick below a moulded stone cornice. The basement and ground floor have been altered, except for the last three bays and the right-hand return side facing Dickinson Street, which showcase elaborately decorated cast-iron railings at the basement openings and coupled sashed windows with stone mullions and heads.

The upper floors display a mix of single and coupled windows arranged in a specific pattern, with square-headed windows on the first floor, segmental-headed windows on the second floor, and stilted segmental windows with stepped heads and linked hoodmoulds on the third floor. The right-hand return wall consists of 10 bays in a matching style, featuring a wide segmental-headed loading bay entrance in the sixth bay. This building forms a group with No. 103, Nos. 105 and 107, and Nos. 109 and 111 to the left, together creating a complete block of former warehouses.