Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE CENTRAL STREET
698-1/27/42 (North side)
03/10/74 Nos.1 TO 5 (Odd)

GV II

Includes: No.7 SOUTHMILL STREET.
Probably a warehouse, subsequently Post Office, now offices
etc. Mid to later C19, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond,
with sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Long rectangular
plan. Simplified palazzo style. Four storeys and basement, a
16-bay facade, very regular; with rusticated vermiculated
plinth, rusticated quoins, sill-bands to the upper floors, and
a frieze of roundels; an arcaded ground floor of round-headed
arches which have coupled piers, moulded imposts and keyed
moulded heads, containing segmental-headed windows to the
basement and round-headed sashes to the ground floor, except
the 8th arch which is a doorway, the 10th which has an
inserted doorway, and the last, which is a waggon arch;
recessed segmental-headed sashes without glazing bars on all
upper floors, all with moulded surrounds and stilted
hoodmoulds with keystones. Four-bay left return wall (7
Southmill Street) in matching style. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8377298022

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581158

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)