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Manchester is a product of the Industrial Revolution, recognisable for its industrial past. The city is synonymous for its canals, railway viaducts, cotton mills and warehouses which were used to store or house goods before or after transit. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, the city amassed a wide array of warehouses dating from before the Victorian era (1837–1901) to the end of the Edwardian (1910).

The city has examples of six main warehouse types: display of goods, overseas, packing, shipping, railway and canal warehouses. In 1806 there were just over 1,000 but by 1815 this had almost doubled to 1,819. Manchester was dubbed "warehouse city". The earliest were built around King Street although by 1850 warehouses had spread to Portland Street and later to Whitworth Street. They are direct descendants of the canal warehouses of Castlefield.

Warehouses

Warehouse	Image	Description	Completed	Ref.
Dale Street Warehouse Dale Street, Northern Quarter		Grade II*. Canal warehouse, including subterranean water-wheel. Built in 1806 by William Crossley. Recognised as the earliest canal warehouse in Manchester.	1806
1830 warehouse, Liverpool Road railway station Liverpool Road, Castlefield		Grade I. Recognised as the world's first railway warehouse. Designer is unknown, attributed to both architect Thomas Haigh and George Stephenson.	1830
Jackson's Warehouse Piccadilly Basin, Northern Quarter		Grade II*. One of the earliest examples of 'shipping holes', which allow boats to unpack goods under the building. Renovated in 2003, now apartments and commercial space.	1836
Victoria and Albert Warehouses Water Street		Grade II. Warehouses for Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company, now a hotel.	c. 1838
Bradley House 40 Port Street, Northern Quarter		Grade II. Shipping warehouse, probably for Kessler & Co., a machine manufacturing company. One of the very few plainly decorated warehouses in Victorian Manchester, noted for its simple Georgian style.	1850
Watts Warehouse Portland Street, Manchester city centre		Grade II*. Ornate style typifies the extravagant confidence of many Mancunian warehouses of this period, but the Watts Warehouse is notable for its peculiarly eclectic design. Building has five storeys – each decorated in a different style – Italian Renaissance, Elizabethan, French Renaissance and Flemish – and roof pavilions featuring large Gothic wheel windows.	1856
63 George Street 19 Dickinson Street, Manchester city centre		Grade II. Merchant's warehouse in an Italian palazzo style. Now offices and restaurant.	1857
Charlotte House Back George Street, Manchester city centre		Grade II. Cotton merchants' warehouse by Edward Walters. Sandstone ashlar and light red brick exterior. Italian palazzo style.	1857
Behrens Building 127–133 Portland Street, Manchester city centre		Grade II. Various shipping warehouses, built by P.Nunn for Louis Behrens and Sons. Red brick and sandstone exterior. Strong horizontal emphasis which fronts onto Portland Street.	1860
Lancashire House Bootle Street, Manchester city centre		Grade II. Probably merchant's warehouse. Sandstone ashlar exterior at ground floor, red brick with sandstone dressings above	1860
109 and 111, Portland Street		Grade II. Various warehouses, now partly bar and nightclub. Red brick exterior in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. A mixed eclectic style.	1860
London Warehouse 10 Ducie Street		Grade II. Railway warehouse for Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway near the basin of the Ashton Canal. Originally four similar buildings were built, but only one remains.	1867
Harvester House 2 Bootle Street		Grade II. Described as "probably a merchant's warehouse" by English Heritage. Designed by Clegg and Knowles; has altered. Sandstone ashlar exterior and slate roof.	1868
101 Princess Street Major Street		Shipping warehouse by Clegg and Knowles in a Palazzo style. Red brick exterior in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings (roof not visible from street). Parallelogram plan on island site with a rear loading bay. Later converted to offices and a nightclub.	1869
Brazil House 63 Bloom Street		Grade II. Pair of shipping warehouses; now offices. Described as "Eclectic style, with some Gothic features" by English Heritage.	1870
Albion Wharf 19 Albion Street		Grade II*. Red brick exterior with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. Designed in a Venetian Gothic style.	1870
Basil House 105 Portland Street		Grade II. Trade Warehouse. Probably iron-framed, with exterior of red brick, sandstone dressings and slate roof. Designed in an eclectic style. Forms group with No.103 to left, and with No. 109 and 111, and 113 to 119 to right, together comprising a complete block of former warehouses.	1870
Chepstow House Chepstow Street		Grade II. Originally shipping warehouse by Speakman, Son and Hickson, for textile merchant Sam Mendel. Red brick with sandstone dressings exterior.	1874
Central House 74 Princess Street		Shipping warehouse by Corson and Aitken. Red brick with red sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof with obelisk finials. Described as "Scottish Baronial" style by English Heritage.	1880
Great Northern Warehouse Watson Street, Manchester		Grade II*. Built by Great Northern Railway. A unique survival of a 3-way railway goods exchange station, serving the railway, canal and road networks of the Manchester region. Built to be fully fire proof, it was considered in its day to be one of the most advanced railway goods exchanges in the country.	1885–96, and 1899
18–24 Princess Street			c. 1870s
Sevendale House Spear Street		Grade II	1903
1 Central Street County Street		Grade II. Probably a warehouse in a simplified palazzo style. Now offices.	c. 1865
Austin House 12 Charlotte Street		Grade II. Textile merchants' warehouses; now offices. Designed by Edward Walters in an Italian palazzo style. Altered since opening; now offices	1860
12 Charlotte Street		Grade II. Built as a home trade warehouse. Extension of the Austin House warehouse building. Basement and five-storeys, sandstone ashlar exterior. Narrow plan on corner site. Now offices	1870
110–114 Portland Street		Grade II. Warehousing, probably textiles or clothing. Designed by Charles Heathcote in an Romanesque style. Irregular trapeziform plan with sandstone ashlar and red brick exterior	1880
49 Spring Gardens		Grade II. Textiles warehouse by Alfred Waterhouse. Sandstone ashlar exterior and mansard slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site, with curved corners, and loading bay to rear. Eclectic style, with some Gothic motifs.	1891
Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building Whitworth Street		Grade II*. Formerly home to Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Co., a cotton manufacturing company.	1898
107 Piccadilly London Road		Grade II. Cotton manufacturers' showroom and warehouse, now hotel and restaurant. Designed by Charles Heathcote, possibly for Horrocks Crewdson & Co or Sparrow Hardwick & Company.	1899
Princes Building 34 Oxford Street		Grade II. Designed by I.R.E.Birkett in an Art Nouveau style. Now offices and retail units	1903
Asia House, Manchester 82 Princess Street		Grade II*. Edwardian Baroque by Harry S. Fairhurst. Interior described as "unusually elaborate" and "probably the best example of its kind in any Manchester warehouse" with Art Nouveau and Venetian Gothic motifs.	1909
Canada House 3 Chepstow Street		Grade II. Packing warehouse by William G. Higginbottom in Art Nouveau style. Five storeys with basement and double attic. Cast-iron frame with steel truss roof.	1909
Lancaster House, Manchester		Edwardian Baroque by Harry S. Fairhurst. Grade II*	1910
Bridgewater House Whitworth Street		Packing and shipping warehouse by Harry S. Fairhurst. Grade II	1912

See also

• Architecture of Manchester
• Manchester cotton warehouses
• Cottonopolis

References

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v t e Buildings and structures in Manchester, England
Skyscrapers (over 100 metres)	Deansgate Square South Tower (201m) Beetham Tower (169m) Deansgate Square East Tower (158m) The Blade (154m) Three60 (154m) Elizabeth Tower (153m) Deansgate Square West Tower (141m) Viadux (136m) Deansgate Square North Tower (122m) CIS Tower (118m) Affinity Living Circle Square (116m) Oxygen Towers (110m) Angel Gardens (108m) City Tower (107m) Bridgewater Heights (106m)
High-rises (over 50 metres)	Artisan Heights (95m) Axis Tower (93m) 1 Spinningfields (92m) River Street Tower (92m) Arndale House (90m) Manchester Town Hall Clock Tower (87m) Cambridge Street Block A (83m) One Regent (82m) Civil Justice Centre (81m) Manchester One (80m) 1 Circle Square (76m) 3 Hardman Street (75m) Great Northern Tower (72m) One Angel Square (72m) 3 St Peter's Square (72m) The Gate, Angel Meadow (68m) The Light House (67m) Victoria Residence (67m) The Principal Manchester (66m) Victoria Mill (65m) Albert Bridge House (64m) 111 Piccadilly (64m) Islington Wharf (64m) The Slate Yard Flint Building (64m) Skyline Central (63m) The Peninsula (63m) Cambridge Street Block B (63m) No. 1 Deansgate (62m) Owens Park Tower (61m) Brooklyn Hotel (61m) One Castle Wharf (61m) Manchester Business School Hotel (60m) St James's Buildings (60m) 2 Leftbank Apartments (60m) 3 Leftbank Apartments (60m) 3 Piccadilly Place (60m) Chancery Place (60m) The Lume (60m) Affinity Living Circle Square Tower 2 (60m) One St Peter's Square (59m) Two St Peter's Square (59m) Landmark, St. Peter's Square (59m) 2 Circle Square (59m) Hotel and MSCP, Circle Square (59m) Lowry House (58m) Minshull Street Courts (57m) UNITE Tower (57m) Cornbrook Works Tower 1 (57m) Ramada Renaissance Hotel (56m) Parkway Gate Block 1 (56m) Royal Exchange Theatre (55m) 1 New York Street (55m) St James's House (55m) Bank Chambers (55m) Vita Circle Square Tower 1 (54m) Kampus Tower 1 (54m) Kampus Tower 2 (54m) Affinity Living Circle Square Tower 3 (54m) No. 1 Marsden Street (53m) The Stile, Angel Meadow (53m) 82 King Street (52m) Oxygen Tower 2 (52m) Vox Tower 1 (51m) Kampus Tower 3 (51m) New Century House (50m) Hexagon Tower (50m) Parkway Gate Block 2 (50m)
Notable low-rises (city centre or Grade II* listed)	1 The Avenue 1–3 York Street 25 St Ann Street 38 and 42 Mosley Street 46–48 Brown Street 50 Newton Street 53 King Street 84 Plymouth Grove 100 King Street Afflecks Alan Turing Building Albert Hall Ancoats Hospital Arkwright House Athenaeum Baguley Hall Bank Chambers Barlow Hall Barton Arcade Central Library Chetham's Library Chips Clayton Hall Corn Exchange County Court Daily Express Dalton-Ellis Hall Didsbury Campus Estate Exchange Former Bank of England Free Trade Hall Gateway House Old Granada Studios The Green Building Grove House The Haçienda Hanover Building Heaton Hall Holyoake House Hough End Hall Hulme Hall Hulme Hippodrome Institute of Biotechnology John Rylands Library John Rylands University Library Kendals Lawrence Buildings Law Library Lincoln House London Road Fire Station Manchester Art Gallery Manchester Museum Mechanics' Institute Memorial Hall Midland Hotel Minshull Street Crown Courts Science and Industry Museum National Graphene Institute Nicholls Building Odeon Cinema Old Wellington Inn One Piccadilly Gardens Pankhurst Centre People's History Museum Police Museum Portico Library Playhouse Theatre Redfern Building Reform Club Rose Hill Royal Eye Hospital Rylands Building Sackville Street Building Sharston Hall Ship Canal House Slade Hall Smithfield Market Hall St Anselm Hall Saint Mary's Hospital St Michael's Strangeways Sunlight House Theatre Royal Toast Rack The Towers Transport Museum Urbis Uttley House Victoria Baths Whitworth Art Gallery Whitworth Building Wythenshawe Bus Garage Wythenshawe Hall
Mills and warehouses	107 Piccadilly 1830 warehouse, Liverpool Road railway station Albion Mill Asia House Beehive Mill Bridgewater House Brownsfield Mill Brunswick Mill Canada House Chorlton New Mills Churchgate House Dale Street Warehouse Havelock Mills India House Jackson's Warehouse Lancaster House McConnel & Kennedy Mills Murrays' Mills Old Mill Piccadilly Mill Royal Mill Shudehill Mill Watts Warehouse
Religious (Grade I or II* listed)	British Muslim Heritage Centre Brookfield Church Castlefield Chapel Christ Church Cross Street Chapel Holy Name of Jesus Edgar Wood Centre Gorton Monastery Holy Trinity Platt Church The Hidden Gem (Church of St Mary) Jewish Museum Manchester Cathedral Manchester Reform Synagogue St Ann's St Chrysostom's Church Church of St Cross St George St James St John St Mary (Hulme) Church of St Michael St Nicholas St Peter Upper Brook Street Chapel St Wilfrid
Transportation	Manchester Airport Airport station Deansgate station Piccadilly station Victoria station Oxford Road station Piccadilly bus station Shudehill Interchange
Entertainment	O2 Apollo Arndale Centre Bridgewater Hall Castlefield Bowl Central Co-op Live Contact Theatre Cornerhouse The Factory Great Northern Warehouse HOME Palace Theatre Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre Opera House The Printworks Manchester Arena Manchester Academy O2 Ritz Royal Exchange Theatre Victoria Warehouse
Sports venues	Aquatics Centre Belle Vue Stadium Broadhurst Park National Cycling Centre (BMX Arena, Velodrome) Etihad Campus City of Manchester Stadium Manchester City Academy Stadium Manchester Regional Arena National Speedway Stadium National Squash Centre
Memorials and sculptures	Alan Turing Memorial Albert Memorial B of the Bang The Glade of Light Cenotaph Rise up, Women (Emmeline Pankhurst statue) Peacock Mausoleum Victory Over Blindness
Bridges	Albert Bridge Blackfriars Bridge Corporation Street Bridge Hulme Arch Bridge Irwell Railway bridge Palatine Bridge Store Street Aqueduct Trinity Bridge Victoria Bridge
Architecture Castles Churches Grade I listed Grade II* listed Grade II listed Mills Monuments Tallest Warehouses Italics denote building under construction

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