Building Name

Harvester House 37 Peter Street Manchester

Date
1868
Street
37 Peter Street
District/Town
Central, Manchester
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Ralli Brothers
Work
New Build

Opposite the Free Trade Hall is a large square block of classicality, just completed with a ground storey of rusticated masonry, forming a series of circular headed openings which has a solid sensible look enough, but would have been better with a deeper reveal to give more look of weight and strength, considering the size of the superstructure. Above the first floor string there is nothing to praise. There are three storeys of windows of the most common and conventional classical type a string course of the same section (and a very weak and ineffective section) forming a continuous sill to each range of windows, though the design of these latter is different in each storey. The neglect of the point and expression which may be given to a building by the judicious contrast in the size and profile of the string courses speaks only too surely of the absence of true feeling for architectural design. [Manchester Guardian 20 October 1868 page 7]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 20 October 1868 page 7 – Art Notes in Manchester (from the Builder)
Reference    Manchester Guardian 13 April 1913 page 1 – for sale