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Booth Street, MANCHESTER, M2 4AD

1 Booth Street was built in 1847 for R. H. Greg and Co. The large palazzo style warehouse is constructed of red brick with stone dressing. It is an example of fireproof construction incorporating cast-iron columns and beams as well as brick jack arches. http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour5/area5page25.html Together with 31 Pall Mall it is Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1283076 As well as various offices, it presently houses the Honorary Consulate of Italy in Manchester http://web.archive.org/web/20171030005503/http://www.consolato-manchester.co.uk/en/

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.

Described as "31 Pall Mall, 1 Booth Street" by Historic England, the listing is equally vague about the history. " Probably warehouse, now offices. Probably 1850s." See https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1283076

Leading off Booth Street. The smaller building (only four storeys) is Lombard Chambers Image Whilst it might appear that there are two tall Portland Stone buildings behind it. The one on the left is the eleven storey Ship Canal House whilst the other is actually a reflection of it in the glass of the offices occupied by Kyocera. The building in the left foreground is the Gregs Building which houses the Honorary Consulate of Italy in Manchester http://web.archive.org/web/20171030005503/http://www.consolato-manchester.co.uk/en/

Massey Chambers was built by architect Edward Salomons in 1872. It is notable for the intricate decoration on the front. In particular, A row of sculpted heads including this renaissance-styled "veiled lady" decorates the spaces between the round-topped second floor windows. See Image] and Image

Erstwhile HQ of the Manchester Ship Canal, designed by Harry S.Fairhurst, and built in 1927. This is a grade II listed building - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1219203

A noble facade by Manchester's most distinguished Classical architect of the time, Richard Lane. Built in 1841-42, the elegant ground-floor arcade sympathetically rebuilt by Charles Heathcote in 1904. Lane's inspiration for his decoration was the Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus which stood on the Acropolis (Image]). He might have seen the illustration in James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens. Grade II listed. Built for the Manchester & Salford Savings Bank, now occupied by a French restaurant, Le Relais de Venise L'Entrecote, and Allied Irish Banks in the offices above.

The pilasters, frieze of laurel wreaths, and pedestal above are derived from the Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus, which stood on the Acropolis. Full view here: Image

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