Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW GEORGE STREET 698-1/32/141 (South East side) 03/10/74 No.63

GV II

Merchant's warehouse, now restaurant and offices. c.1860; altered. Sandstone ashlar, and red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan, with integral loading bay at rear. Italian palazzo style. Four storeys over basement, 4 bays to George Street and 5 bays to Dickinson Street, with rusticated ashlar to ground floor, rusticated quoins above, string-courses over all floors, bracketed cornice and balustraded parapet. The basement and ground floor of each main facade is treated as a rustic arcade of round-headed arches with impost bands and voluted keystones with lion-heads, except the doorway to the right which has an enriched architrave with interlaced geometrical surround, key-block with herm flanked by swags, and moulded cornice, and the wider loading bay at the left end of the other facade which has an enriched segmental archway. The windows of the 1st and 2nd floors have shouldered architraves, the upper with swags and cornices over them; those at 3rd floor have coupled round-headed lights in round-headed architraves with eagles in the tympani and voluted keystones to the heads. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8401797875

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