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Watts Warehouse is a large, ornate Victorian Grade II* listed building standing on Portland Street in the centre of Manchester, England. It opened in 1856 as a textile warehouse for the wholesale drapery business of S & J Watts, and was the largest single-occupancy textile warehouse in Manchester. Today the building is part of the Britannia ...
Portland Street, Manchester city centre: ... 1885–96, and 1899 [27] 18–24 Princess Street: c. 1870s Sevendale House Spear Street: Grade II 1903 [28] 1 Central Street
Portland Street is a street in Manchester, England, which runs from Piccadilly at its junction with Newton Street south-westwards to Oxford Street at its junction with Chepstow Street. The major buildings of Portland Street include the largest former warehouse in the city centre, Watts Warehouse (grade II* listed), the former Bank of England ...
Bank Chambers from New York Street. Bank Chambers is an office building on Portland Street, Manchester, England. Its heavy and imposing appearance gives away its previous use as a bullion bank vault by the Bank of England. The Bank of England vacated the building in the 1990s and the building is now used as offices.
Flanking the centre bay are round-headed doorways, with round-headed windows above, and square-headed windows on the top floor. The other windows are paired. All the windows have decorated surrounds, including twisted shafts with foliated caps. [34] II: 32 Dickinson Street and 106 and 108 Portland Street
In the mid-19th century, the site on the south east side of Portland Street had been occupied by a row of residential and retail properties which included the Portland Street Silk Mill; the area in the next block to the south east of the site (on the south east side of Major Street) was known at that time as Westminster Place and this may have been, in part, the origin of the name.
Built in about 1790, it is also one of the oldest pubs in Manchester, although it only became a pub in about 1840. [3] [4] The pub is owned by Tetley's, a Yorkshire brewery, and contains photographs of former Manchester United players who frequented the pub, including George Best. [5] [6] On 6 June 1994, it was listed as a Grade II building. [1 ...
King Street forms an upmarket part of the city centre: its eastern part was once mainly the site of banks but now has shops as well; the western part is a long-established shopping street. Conservation area for Listed Buildings (11 buildings listed Grade II, two listed Grade II* and one Grade I).