Lee House 90, Manchester
Description: Lee House 90
Grade: II
Date Listed: 17 November 1987
English Heritage Building ID: 388156
OS Grid Reference: SJ8394997620
OS Grid Coordinates: 383949, 397620
Latitude/Longitude: 53.4751, -2.2433
Location: 90 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester M1 5LE
Locality: Manchester
Local Authority:
County: Greater Manchester
Country: England
Postcode: M1 5LE
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Listing Text
MANCHESTER
SJ8397NE GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET
698-1/31/149 (South side)
17/11/87 No.90
Lee House
GV II
Warehouse, forming extension to Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee
building (56 Oxford Street, q.v.). 1928-31, by Harry S.
Fairhurst and Son; uncompleted. Steel frame clad in brown
brick with bronze-framed windows and some Portland stone
dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan. International
style. Eight storeys over basement, 6 bays to Bridgewater
Street, with broad corner pilasters and narrow chamfered piers
all of brick, vertically continuous canted 3-light
fenestration with bronze panels between the floors; except in
the 6th bay, which has square windows and brick ribbed panels;
and the basement-to-1st-floor levels of the first 2 bays
(containing a rectangular loading bay), the 4th bay (a doorway
and a window above this) and the 6th (1 window to each floor)
which are faced in Portland stone with Art Deco ornament.
Portland stone capping slightly arched over each bay, with a
metal rail attached by brackets and carried round. Right-hand
return and rear similar. History: was designed to rise to 217
feet with 17 storeys, completion prevented presumably by the
Great Depression of 1929-31.
Listing NGR: SJ8394997620
Source: English Heritage
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