11, Bloom Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW BLOOM STREET 698-1/32/18 (South East side) No.11

GV II

Various warehouses and pattern card factory, now various offices. Mid to later C19, altered (renovation in progress at time of survey). Some sandstone ashlar but mostly red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Square plan including through loading bay at left side. Basement and 4 storeys, 8-window facade with channelled corner pilasters. The ground floor, of sandstone ashlar, has a round-headed doorway to the right with keyed moulded surround and dentilled cornice, a rectangular loading entrance at the left end with channelled surround, and between these almost continuous fenestration behind an unusual colonnaded screen of square columns with a plain frieze and moulded cornice; the upper floors have sashed windows, those at 1st floor with triangular-headed lintels, those at 2nd floor with gauged brick heads (those above concealed at time of survey). Rear (to Richmond Street) has loading entrance at right-hand end with convex sandstone jambs which have raised rock-faced bands, and a thin iron lintel under a relieving arch; and segmental-headed windows. The loading bay side has a well between the front and rear ranges, and glazed roof protecting the passage. INTERIOR: iron columns and wooden beams; curved wooden staircase. Forms group with No.8 and No.10 Minshull Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8444497971