1 Booth Street, Manchester
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1 Booth Street, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Jul 2011
Built 1846-47 by R.E. Whittaker for R.H. Greg & Co (remembered in the current name, Gregs Buildings). A simple design, but attractive in its combination of stone and red brick, and the quality of its modest details. Pevsner notes its importance as an example of "fireproof construction applied to a warehouse, with cast-iron columns and beams and brick jack arches. Manchester warehouses seldom adopted this form, preferring to stick to the cheaper option of timber floors." Grade II listed. It is being marketed as high-quality "boutique" offices, which makes a nice change from all those low-quality offices being advertised, but I've no idea what boutique means in this context.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.480364
Longitude
-2.243614