56, Dale Street

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE DALE STREET 698-1/29/88 (West side) No.56

GV II

Shipping warehouse, now garment wholesalers' premises. c.1870, altered. Plinth and ground floor of sandstone ashlar with some polished pink granite, upper floors of red brick in Flemish bond with some blue brick ornament, roof concealed. Rectangular plan parallel to street, with loading bays in right-hand side wall (to Mangle Street). Simplified Venetian style. Basement and 4 storeys, 7 bays, symmetrical; cornice to ground floor, pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors, arcaded frieze and prominent cornice; central round-headed doorway with set-in granite colonettes, crest on lintel lettered "FAC ET SPERA", and banded 2-centred arched extrados; coupled windows on all floors except the top: shouldered at basement level, segmental-headed at ground floor with granite colonettes and banded heads under linked hoodmoulds, square-headed at 2nd floor with sandstone lintels and diaper bands above, banded segmental-headed at 3rd floor with linking carved impost bands and hoodmoulds; small triple windows at 4th floor, with continuous sill-band. All these (except basement) sashed without glazing bars. Right-hand return wall, 12 windows, mostly narrow 4-pane sashes, those up to 2nd floor in chamfered slots, and double loading bays towards rear, both with internal wall-cranes and one with Jacobs ladder. INTERIOR: wide quarter-turn staircase with cast-iron balusters.

Listing NGR: SJ8461698259