Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET
698-1/29/252 (North West side)
No.49

GV II

Includes: No.10 STEVENSON SQUARE.
Includes: No.18 HILTON STREET.
Cotton goods warehouse, now garment wholesalers' premises. Mid
to later C19, altered. Red brick in Flemsh bond, with
gritstone ashlar plinth and dressings (roof not visible).
U-plan with long range parallel to Hilton Street and wings to
Newton Street and Stevenson Square. Basement and 5 storeys, a
6-window facade to Newton Street, with ground floor of
rusticated gritstone, sill-band to 3rd floor, plain parapet
with moulded coping and 2 upstands. The ground floor has a
large round-headed doorway in the 4th bay with rusticated
cavetto surround, lion-mask keystone, and cornice; and altered
windows (that at left end now a doorway); the 1st and 2nd
floors have 4-pane sashed windows, those at 2nd floor with
raised sills and segmental heads linked by a thin channel at
impost level; the 3rd and 4th floors have smaller sashes,
those at 4th floor segmental-headed with keystones and linked
by a similar channel. The right-hand return (to Hilton
Street), an 11-window range in matching style, has a wider
centre bay with a loading entrance at ground floor and
tripartite windows at 1st and 2nd floors. The north return (to
Stevenson Square), is 3 matching bays, including a doorway
like that to Newton Street. Rear: deep loading slot in rear of
Newton Street range. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8462098405

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561399

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