A former garment warehouse, dated 1888. It was built with red brick in Flemish bond with dressings of moulded buff and white terracotta in an eclectic style with Romanesque elements. It has a three storey five-window façade, symmetrical, with the centre bay breaking forwards. Flanking the centre are round-headed doorways at ground floor and at 1st floor, with square-headed windows at 2nd floor, and beyond these coupled windows on all floors, set in large round-headed blank arches with Tudor-flower sill-bands to these; all these windows with much moulded terracotta enrichment, including twisted shafts with foliated caps. It has an unusual degree of High Victorian decoration on a relatively small building.
The Grade II listed building is near Great Ancoats Street.
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Some of the older buildings everywhere, have more great architectural work than the newer ones.
ReplyDeleteI love beautiful old buildings and this one is really nice.
ReplyDeleteMarie
These old buildings are just beautiful !
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! I love those old brick houses.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful old building. I am sure it has many stories.
ReplyDeleteThere are a boat load of similar buildings in this area. Nice details. Tom The Backroads Traveller
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely LOVE it!!!!!
ReplyDeleteit's gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteGerald, a very unique building. The arched windows are stunning, but very unusual to have the blue around the windows.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful brickwork!
ReplyDeleteThat is one cool building. Certainly fancy for a warehouse!
ReplyDeleteArchitecture of the past is so beautiful. And also, more substantial. I wish we could go back to that.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of lovely detail in that building, I wonder if the garments made were as fancy?
ReplyDeleteWren x