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For all Manchester's embarrassment of Victorian riches, the Georgian enthusiast will find relatively meagre pickings. Pevsner describes this house of 1770 as "the best preserved house of its date in the centre." Sadly, later mutilation of the doorcase detracts from the facade, but otherwise it has been left alone. Grade II* listed. Richard Cobden, politician and reformer, lived here, 1836-50; it housed Owen's College, precursor to the University of Manchester, 1851-73; later it housed the County Court; and currently it is barristers' chambers.

Another tower arises in Manchester city centre - this time near the Opera House, Quay Street.

This former town house on the corner of Quay Street and Byrom Street is Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1247447 It was the residence of the politician and refromer Richard Cobden. The house was purchased in 1851 with money from a legacy left by John Owens. Owens intended the legacy to fund the establishment of a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines. The college was set-up in Cobden House and called Owens College. The college left Cobden House in 1873 to move to a new home on Oxford Road where it became the Victoria University and eventually the University of Manchester. It was converted into Manchester County Court and opened as a court house in 1878. It continued as that until 1990. http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour1/cobden.html It has since been refurbished and is now barrister's chambers http://www.cobden.co.uk/ The Byrom Street side has a blue plaque Image to the memory of Sir Edward Frankland and Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.

On the Byrom Street side of Cobden House Chambers Image is a blue plaque to the memory of Sir Edward Frankland and Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe. RSC Sir Edward Frankland PhD FRS Professor of Chemistry 1851-1857 Organometallic compounds. Bonding and Valency. Water Analysis. First President of the Institute of Chemistry Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe BA PhD FRS Professor of Chemistry 1857-1886 Vanadium. Photochemistry. Spectroscopy. First President of the Society of Chemical Industry Active in the transfer of Owens College from this building to Oxford Road in 1873 and in the foundation of the Victoria University in 1880. Royal Society of Chemistry

The 'Number 1 Spinningfields' development in Manchester.

New development for Allied London designed by Ian Simpson Architects.

No.1 Spinningfields seen from Byrom Street.

Looking west, along Quay Street (A34). Image] can be seen on the right hand side of the road.