Building Name

Fryer & Binyon’s Warehouse Chester Street Chorlton-on-Medlock

Date
1855 - 1863
Street
Chester Street
District/Town
Chorlton-on- Medlock, Manchester
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Thomas Binyon - Binyon and Fryer
Work
New build
Status
Demolished
Contractor
Mark Foggett for extension

Warehouse and sugar refinery. Original building of two storeys of brick with stone dressings. In 1863 additional floors were added.

In the same town (Manchester) Mr Alfred Waterhouse is erecting offices and stores for Messrs Binyon and Fryer. The upper part of the front is built of red and white brick in chequers. The offices are on the first floor with a range of windows with iron shafts coupled in the thickness of the wall. [Builder 19 January 1856 page 26].

Tea warehouse in Venetian Gothic style. Six floors. Ground floor with the entrance door emphasised. Round arched arcaded windows to first floor offices. Early design by Waterhouse, possibly gained through the Quaker connections of his father, a retired mill owner of Aigburgh near Liverpool. Design exhibited by Waterhouse. Design based on the Doge's palace in Venice, showing influence of Ruskin in the use of polychromatic brickwork and the selection of mediaeval Italian style. The upper three floors were for storage only and had small windows. The upper walls had diaper patterns in two colours of contrasting brickwork similar to the Doges Palace in Venice. The ground and first floor was designed as a Romanesque cloister with round arches and coupled cast iron columns in front of the window plane.

Reference    Manchester Guardian 16 January 1856
Reference    Builder 19 January 1856 page 26 - Review of Architectural Exhibition drawings
Reference    Stewart: Stones of Manchester

Thomas Binyon, a tea merchant, lived in Irlams o' th' Height. See also *