Dale Street Warehouse

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Dale Street Warehouse
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Dale Street Warehouse
Dale Street (now Carver's) Warehouse
General information
Architectural styleWarehouse
Town or city Manchester
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Completed1806
Design and construction
Architect(s)William Crosley
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameDale Warehouse
Designated10 November 1972
Reference no. 1200845

Dale Street Warehouse is an early 19th-century warehouse in the Piccadilly Basin area of Manchester city centre, England. It is a Grade II* listed building as of 10 November 1972. [1] It is the earliest surviving canal warehouse in the city. [2] The building is dated 1806 with the initials "WC" on the datestone, indicating that it was designed by William Crosley, [3] an engineer who worked with William Jessop on the inner-Manchester canal system.

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Constructed of watershot millstone grit blocks, the four-storey building has timber floors, supported throughout by cast-iron columns, a feature which now makes it unique amongst Manchester warehouses. [3] The base of the building incorporates four boatholes, which allowed boats to unload their cargoes inside of the warehouse. The warehouse also incorporates a "subterranean wheel-pit containing a 16-foot water-wheel used to drive hoists both in this building and in a former warehouse to the south via a line-shaft tunnel which mostly survives beneath the car-park". [1]

For many years, the building was a shop and was described in 2000 as "sadly neglected"; [4] the warehouse has now been converted to office space and a café and renamed Carver's Warehouse.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "Dale Warehouse, Manchester". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  2. Clare Hartwell, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester; p. 219
  3. 1 2 Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004). The Buildings of England - Lancashire: Manchester and the South East. Yale University Press. p. 304. ISBN   978-0-300-10583-4.
  4. John J. Parkinson-Bailey Manchester: an Architectural History, p. 323

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