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Latitude: 53.4767 / 53°28'36"N
Longitude: -2.2389 / 2°14'20"W
OS Eastings: 384240
OS Northings: 397802
OS Grid: SJ842978
Mapcode National: GBR DKJ.WP
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.LW21
Plus Code: 9C5VFQG6+MC
Entry Name: Brazil House
Listing Date: 3 October 1974
Last Amended: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270871
English Heritage Legacy ID: 456841
Also known as: Princess House
105-107 Princess Street
ID on this website: 101270871
Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: City Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester St Ann
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Building
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/342 (North East side)
03/10/74 Nos.105 AND 107
Brazil House
GV II
Pair of shipping warehouses, now offices, etc. c.1870-80;
altered. Yellow brick with sandstone dressings (roof not
visible). Trapeziform plan on island site, at right-angles to
street, with rear loading bay. Eclectic style, with some
Gothic features. Four storeys over basements, 2+2 windows (the
outer windows tripartite), symmetrical; with chamfered plinth,
saw-tooth sill-bands to all floors, impost bands to all except
the top floor, heavily bracketed cornice. The ground floor has
tall coupled doorways in the centre, with pilaster jambs,
carved stiff-leaf imposts, and 5-stepped segmental-arched
heads with keyblocks, flanked by tripartite windows with
segmental-arched centre lights and moulded surrounds with
stiff-leaf imposts; the upper floors all have square-headed
tripartite windows to the outer bays and single-light windows
over the doors, those at 1st and 2nd floors with pilaster
jambs and the lower with stilted moulded heads. All these
windows sashed without glazing bars. Lift-head on roof. Return
sides very simple, with windows grouped 4, 4, 4 and 2; loading
bay entrances at rear end. Interior not inspected. Forms group
with No.103 to left (q.v.) and 109 to right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8424097802
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