Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building, Manchester

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The Tootal Buildings
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The Tootal Buildings
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Location within Greater Manchester
Former namesTootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building
Churchgate House
General information
TypeCommercial office
Town or city Manchester
CountryEngland
Coordinates 53°28′31″N2°14′32″W / 53.4752°N 2.2422°W / 53.4752; -2.2422
Construction started1896
Inaugurated1898
Renovated2015
OwnerHelical Bar PLC
Technical details
Floor count6
Design and construction
Architect(s)J. Gibbons Sankey
Main contractor Capital Properties (UK) Ltd
Designations
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameTootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building
Designated2 October 1974
Reference no. 1271294

The Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building (currently marketed as The Tootal Buildings [1] ) at No. 56 Oxford Street, in Manchester, England, is a late Victorian warehouse and office block built in a neo-Baroque style for Tootal Broadhurst Lee, a firm of textile manufacturers.

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History

It was designed by J. Gibbons Sankey and constructed between 1896 and 1898. [2] It has been designated a Grade II* listed building. [3]

Nikolaus Pevsner's The Buildings of England describes the warehouse as "large, in red brick stripped with orange terracotta, but comparatively classical". [2] It has a "massive central round-headed doorway with banded surround and cartouche dated 1896, set in (an) architrave of coupled banded columns and (a) broken pediment". [3]

The interior has been redesigned, but a First World War memorial by Henry Sellers has been retained, being "marble, with a niche from which the figure (has been) stolen". [4]

Behind it and not visible from Oxford Street is Lee House, the stub of what would have been the tallest building in Europe at 217 ft (66 m), a 17-storey warehouse of the same firm (planned 1928; part completed 1931). [5] Both Churchgate House and Lee House are on the north bank of the Rochdale Canal; Great Bridgewater Street is immediately to the north of them.

Occupants

As of 2024, the building hosts the headquarters of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, including the office of the Mayor of Greater Manchester. [6] [7]

See also

Notes

  1. "The Tootal Buildings - Helical PLC". Helical PLC.
  2. 1 2 The Buildings of England: Lancashire- Manchester and the South East, p. 321
  3. 1 2 Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building 56 - Manchester - Greater Manchester - England | British Listed Buildings
  4. Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester, p. 182
  5. Sharp, Dennis, et al. (1969) Manchester. London: Studio Vista; p. 33
  6. "Region's 'super council' to get £2m city centre headquarters". 23 September 2016.
  7. "GMCA: Our address". greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk. Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Retrieved 2 March 2024.

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