Salis Schwabe Warehouse 46-54 Mosley Street Manchester

Built at the junction of Mosley Street and Charlotte Street on the site of the former Assembly Rooms. Red brick with a generous amount of stone trimmings, odd rustication and many kinds of window surround. The entire ground storey was constructed of stone. Windows were larger and much more closely spaced than allowed by academic convention. The first and second floor windows were combined in recesses formed on the facade to give vertical continuity. Mouldings were deliberately made very bold. No London commercial building could be compared with this except possibly The Royal Exchange Building by I’Anson

Mr. Walters is the architect of the warehouse in the same street, belonging to Messrs Salis Schwabe and Company, which is now finishing with the entire front of stone ashlar backed up with brick, in the Roman style. [Civil Engineer and Architect’s Journal September 1845 page 292-293]