Peiser Warehouse, George Street, Manchester

Ascribed to Walters by The Builder. The client, J Peiser subsequently advised that the architect was J W Pickard.

For like reason, the warehouse of Mr J Peiser, in George Street, apparently by the same hand, deserves notice. It is also of red brick and stone, and has a rusticated and arcaded basement with carved consoles to the arches, and a string course with a bold roll-moulding enriched with leaves. The doorway here has an arched heads cornice, spandrels and festoons, and an ornamented roll-moulding in the hollow of the jambs. The windows above are grouped together storey and storey, in the composition, and well joined with the moulded strings. The top storey has arch headed windows, each with a kind of pendant in the centre and a spandrel space in which is carved a phoenix. A bold cornice with small cantilevers, crowns the whole; and the rusticated quoins again contribute to the successful effect of the design. - Builder [Manchester Guardian 4 March 1858 page 4]

MR PEISER’S WAREHOUSE, MANCHESTER —Sir, In your impression of the 13th ult. in commenting upon "Art and Buildings in Manchester" (page 97), you assume that Mr. Walters, of whom you had been speaking, was the architect also of my warehouse in George-street. I conceive it but fair on my part to inform you that it is the production of Mr. J. W. Pickard, a young architect who may be benefited by this public notice in your widely-circulated journal. J. Peiser. [Builder 13 March 1858 page 188]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 4 March 1858 page 4
Reference    Builder 13 March 1858 page 188