Nos. 17-25, NEWTON STREET, and Nos. 32 and 34, DALE STREET

SJ 8498 SE, 698-1/29/250

MANCHESTER, NEWTON STREET (north-west side), Nos. 17 to 25 (odd)

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Includes: Nos. 32 and 34 DALE STREET. Shops and clothing warehouses with offices over. Late C19; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, mansard slate roof with skylights. Rectangular plan with loading at rear left corner. Four storeys and attic, a 7-window facade (including curved corners); sill- and head-bands to all upper floors, quoined strips to the corners, prominent bracketed cornice, and attic treated as a high parapet. The ground floor has a central segmental-headed doorway with elaborate classical-style pedimented architrave, but is otherwise occupied by C20 shop-fronts; all the upper floors (including the attic) have 4-pane sashed windows and curved sashes at the corners, those at 1st floor with quoined jambs, those at second floor segmental-headed and the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th with keyed architraves and cornices on consoles, and those at 3rd floor with pediments (except at the corners); and the attic has smaller windows with keyed segmental heads and gablets with finials, alternating with six chimneys rising from the parapet. The left return wall has, inter alia, tripartite windows near the rear and a full-height loading slot under a gablet. Right-hand return wall to Dale Street. History: in 1905 No. 21 was occupied by 10 separate offices, mostly commission agents.

Listing NGR: SJ8457898328