Lionesse House

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/331 (South West side) Nos.54 AND 56 Lionesse House

GV II

Shipping warehouses, now bank, offices, etc. c.1880-90. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Almost rectangular plan on island site parallel to street, with canted corner to No.54. Four storeys with basements and attics, 8 bays with 2 windows per bay, plus the canted corner which has one window in each face; with punch-dressed stone plinth, cornice over ground floor, string-courses and sill-bands to all upper floors, moulded cornice and parapet (No.54 brick, and No.56 stone with short brick chimneys). Arcaded ground floor of round-headed arches with keystones and linked hoodmoulds, round-headed doorway to 4th bay with pilastered surround including keystone, carved spandrels and cornice on brackets, inserted doorway to 6th bay, windows with altered glazing in the other bays. Upper floors have shallow rectangular 2-storey oriels in alternate bays, with pilasters and balustraded parapets, and square-headed windows throughout, all with stone lintels and all sashed windows without glazing bars. Mansard roof with low flat-roofed dormers, slated pyramidal turret-roof to right-hand corner. Right-hand return side simpler, but with 2 pedimented attic dormers. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8423897742