Lawrence Buildings, Mount Street

Lawrence Buildings in Mount Street, Manchester, England, is a Victorian office block constructed for the Inland Revenue in 1874–6 by Pennington and Bridgen in the Gothic Revival style.[1] It is a Grade II* listed building as of 3 October 1974.[2]

The building is of sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. Its skyline is dramatic, with "tourelles and slated spirelet, tall crocketed gable(s), low dormers and tall chimmneys".[2] Heavily decorated, it displays a statue of Queen Victoria beneath a canopy on the central front, together with a doorcase flanked by "a lion and a unicorn on pedestals, with an elaborate two-storey oriel window above".[1]

Lawrence Buildings forms a group with St Andrew's Chambers, to the right, in a similar style.[2]

The ground floor is a cafe, and the remaining building, floors 1-5 are occupied by flexible office space company, incspaces.[3]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Hartwell 2001, p 175
  2. 1 2 3 "Lawrence Buildings, City Centre, Manchester".
  3. ↑ Whelan, Dan (22 December 2022). "Incspaces takes 11,000 sq ft in Manchester". Place North West. Retrieved 14 February 2023.

References

  • Hartwell, Clare (2001), Manchester, Pevsner Architectural Guides, London: Penguin, ISBN 0-14-071131-7

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