St Margarets Chambers

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET 698-1/29/246 (North West side) Nos.1 TO 11 (Odd) St Margarets Chambers

GV II

Includes: No.63 St Margaret's Chambers PICCADILLY. Shops with numerous offices over (in 1905 mostly manufacturers' agents). c.1890; altered. Pink brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and some terracotta matching this (probably cladding iron frame), 4-span slate roof. Shallow trapezoidal plan parallel to street. Elizabethan style. Four storeys and attic; 8 bays plus a narrow chamfered corner to the right, the bays divided by semi-octagonal shafts and linked in pairs under 4 large elaborate shaped gables; with a cornice over the ground floor, a deep decorated frieze and cornice over the 1st floor, and a cornice over the 3rd floor. The ground floor has a wide doorway in the 5th bay under a keyed elliptical arch with decorated spandrels, but is otherwise altered by C20 shop-fronts; the 1st floor has recessed canted 3-light windows with altered glazing, the 2nd and 3rd floors have mullioned windows of 3 lights except in the 7th and 8th bays which have 2-light windows; the attic has smaller mullioned windows with 1 and 2 lights in each bay, the division caused by the outer shafts of the shaped gables (which are also pierced). The left end presents one bay to Piccadilly, and the right-hand end is canted, both in matching style. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8454398278