Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8598 POLLARD STREET, Beswick And Clayton
698-1/17/537 (South side)
Co-op Warehouse

GV II

Warehouse. c.1890-1910. Red brick with some sandstone
dressings (roof not visible). Long rectangular plan parallel
to street. Three storeys and basement, 32 bays, including a
6-bay office range at the right-hand end. The latter has a
sill-band and moulded stone cornice to the ground floor
windows carried round the west return wall, a large
round-headed doorway with stone architrave in the 3rd of the 6
bays, plain pilasters to the upper floors, and large
square-headed windows on all floors, those at ground floor
containing coupled sashes with small-paned overlights and
those above with 9-pane glazing. The 6-bay west return wall
has canted oriels tiered through 1st and 2nd floors and
carried on large stone corbels beside the ground-floor
windows, but otherwise similar fenestration except the 2nd
floor which has square 12-pane windows. The main range to the
left of the offices has segmental-headed windows. Plain
parapet with stone coping. No chimneys. Part of group with
Vulcan Works to the left, and the industrial and commercial
buildings of Pollard Street. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8544998162

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539366

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)