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42-44 Sackville Street, Manchester

42–44 Sackville Street, known originally as Sackville House with originally two separate entrances, 42 and 44 Sackville Street, is a four-storey over basement Grade II[1] listed building in Manchester, England. It is situated in the City Centre ward, and is delimited by Sackville Street to the East, the Rochdale Canal and Canal Street to the North, and Brazil Street to the South. It is adjoined on the West side by Amazon House, and faces Sackville Gardens.

It was built during the expansion of the city, after the Rochdale Canal was opened in 1804, which it is alongside. Its purpose was rental by several company offices.

It is the first Manchester 19th-century warehouse to have been converted into New York-style residential loft apartments in the 20th century.[2][3]

Style[edit]

It was designed in 1870[4] by Pennington and Brigden,[5] architects and surveyors, of Essex Chambers, 8 Essex Street, Manchester M2[6] (at the crossing with King Street), in a rectangular and symmetrical late Georgian style, and made of brick and sandstone.[1] Twin front doors each have a Roman head keystone, probably of Janus, the god of doorways.

Unlike many other buildings of the time, it did not have its name or the date of construction featuring on the building itself.

There was a goods entry on the South side and metal tracks leading into the building, where the car park entrance now is. The ground floor had hoists for lifting and moving goods, some of which still remain. Goods could be brought and collected by barge on the Rochdale Canal.

It is not known who owned the building and how funds were raised to build it.

Chronology of uses, occupiers and ownership[edit]

Nature of businesses[edit]

The street index archives at Manchester Central Library show the building being occupied from 1876.

By 1969, 153 firms had been in the building, for periods ranging from one year to the longest standing company, Greatorex & Co. Ltd., present for 94 years from 1876 and still there in 1969, with an ongoing Companies House listing as Greatorex (Manchester) Ltd after that. The second longest standing company was there for 46 years, Pickering and Berthoud. For the first 10 years, there were typically six companies in the building, then 10 until 1932 onwards when the norm was 15.

The companies mostly named after their owner, show origins in countries including Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Portugal, Germany, Italy, with several names of Jewish descent. Markets served were specific by company, including the Levant, Constantinople, India, the United States, and normally the one from which the head of the firm was from.

Looking at the variations in the names of the businesses, it is possible to see how they included or were handed over to sons, partners appeared and disappeared or took over, and new branches were started so as to diversify.

Although the great majority of firms were connected to the textile industry, exceptions included the Portuguese Vice-Consulate from 1896 to 1922, and in later years the North West Arts Association. Possibly the most famous company name is the Singer sewing machine company.

Table of businesses, and dates up to 1969 (ordered by start date of occupancy)[edit]

Note: Archive records show data by address up to 1969 only, making later data compiling very difficult.

Door Number Name Activity From * Until *

Years of presence *

42 Berger C. & Co (late G. Roy & Co) Merchants 1876 1881 6
42 Greatorex & Brothers Packers 1876 1876 1
42 Meyerhof & Nathorff Merchants 1876 1879 4
44 Nördlinger S. & Co Merchants 1876 1886 11
42 Pinto-Leite & Brother. Merchants 1876 1883 8
42 Sutherland James & Co Merchants 1876 1876 1
42 Ferigao S. Merchant 1879 1879 1
42 Greatorex & Co Ltd Makers up and packers 1879 1945 67
42 Campbell Archibald Commissioning agent 1881 1884 4
42 Pickering & Berthoud Merchants 1881 1926 46
42 Tannenbaum Brothers Merchants 1881 1881 1
42 Whiteside James: shipping merchant Selling yarns to U.S. of America 1881 1916 36
42 Balli G. & Co Merchants 1883 1884 2
42 Harris Thomas Merchant 1884 1890 7
42 Povel & Wübbe Merchants 1884 1893 10
42 Demetriades A. & Co. Merchant 1885 1892 8
42 Georgiades Athanas & Co. Merchants 1885 1894 10
42 Leite Pinto & O'Neill Merchants 1885 1892 8
42 Emmanuel J.P. Merchant 1886 1886 1
44 Bickham George Merchant 1889 1897 9
44 Georgiades C. & Co. Merchant 1890 1892 3
44 Mee E.C. & Co. Merchants 1890 1905 16
42 Ross James W. & Co Velvet manufacturers 1890 1890 1
42 Harris Richard Frederick. Merchant 1891 1896 6
42 Lawton T. & W. Merchants 1891 1892 2
42 Yanni T. & Co Merchants 1891 1891 1
44 Amon J. N. Shipper 1892 1892 1
42 Pinto Leite-Havenith & Co. Selling General Merchandise & Machinery to South America., Portugal, China & Colonies 1893 1926 34
42 Hockmeyer Otto Merchant 1894 1895 2
44 Georgiades Athanas & Co. Merchants 1896 1909 14
44 Greatorex & Co Makers up and packers 1896 1896 1
42 Hockmeyer & Co. Merchants 1896 1907 12
42 Portuguese Vice-Consulate (Joaquim Pinto Leite) Vice-consul for Portugal 1896 1922 27
44 Harris R. F. or Richard Frederick. Merchant 1897 1897 1
44 Vanvouris, Michael & Co. Merchants 1897 1900 4
42 Brisk Michael Merchant 1898 1899 2
44 Luria & Co. Merchants 1898 1901 4
42 Koecher & Co. Shipping merchants 1900 1901 2
44 Farah & Kisbany Merchants 1901 1901 1
42 Ackroyd William Merchant 1903 1906 4
44 Benvenisti I. J. Merchant 1903 1904 2
44 Iplicjian Stepan Merchant 1903 1907 5
44 Secchi A. & Co Selling Manchester Goods to South American and Eastern markets 1904 1909 6
44 Silvera & Co. Merchants 1904 1904 1
44 Astardjian B. & s. H. Shippers 1905 1907 3
44 Lamb W. G. & Co. Shipping merchants 1906 1907 2
44 Ackroyd William Merchant 1907 1907 1
44 D. Tchaoussoglou & M. Mouradian Selling all kinds of Cloth Goods to India 1909 1909 1
42 Frank Sigmund Shipping merchant, selling cotton goods to the continental market 1909 1914 6
42 & 44 Greatorex & Co Makers up and packers 1909 1909 1
44 Hoods Limited Merchants: selling cotton and woollen goods to the Levant 1909 1909 1
44 Joannidi & Co. Selling cotton & woollen goods to the Levant 1909 1909 1
44 Lea William & Co Velvet manufacturers 1909 1909 1
44 Tchaoussoglou Theophanes & Co Manufacturers' agent 1909 1909 1
44 Isaac & Samuel Shipping merchants 1911 1924 14
44 Tchaoussoglou and Mouridian Shippers 1911 1914 4
44 Tchaoussoglou Theophanes & Co Merchants 1911 1917 7
44 Aldridge and Salmon Shippers 1913 1923 11
44 Braunstein & Schibbye (Copenhagen) Shippers 1913 1923 11
44 Daredjian Bros. Shipping merchants 1913 1920 8
42 Salvage S. A. & Co. Shipping merchants 1913 1918 6
44 Seeger Bros. & Co. Shipping merchants 1913 1919 7
44 Joyce Bros. Ltd. Shipping merchants 1918 1919 2
44 Saskissian Abraham Shipping merchant 1918 1919 2
44 Ascoli E. & Sons Ltd. Shipping merchants 1920 1922 3
44 Papasian and Saskissian Shipping merchants 1920 1921 2
44 Tchomlekdjoglou Th. Shipping merchants 1920 1927 8
42 Rinan S Shipping merchant 1921 1921 1
44 Fulton, Armstrong & Co. Shipping merchants 1922 1922 1
44 Saskissian A. Shipping merchant 1922 1922 1
42 & 44 Ascoli E. & Sons Ltd. Shipping merchants 1923 1936 14
44 Kyriakides B. N. Shipping merchants 1923 1923 1
44 Lancashire Textile Ltd. Merchants 1923 1945 23
42 Dominion Textile Co. Ltd. (Montreal) Buying agents 1924 1934 11
42 Holiday R. M. & Co. buying agents Buying agents 1924 1933 10
44 Knowles & Rosher Buying agents 1925 1927 3
42 & 44 Braunstein & Schibbye Cotton manufacturers 1927 1931 5
44 Gordon W. & Co. Ltd. Shipping merchants 1927 1936 10
42 & 44 Schibbye Niels Shipping merchants 1927 1931 5
42 Callinfas A. M. shipping merchants Shipping merchants 1928 1933 6
42 Heathcoat John & Co. Shippers 1928 1945 18
44 Rosher F. Buying agent 1928 1929 2
42 Samter & Co. Ltd. Shipping merchants 1928 1940 13
44 Spruce Manufacturing Co. Ltd Cotton manufacturers 1928 1945 18
44 Sackville Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Cotton manufacturers 1929 1932 4
44 Hegginbottom Samuel & Sons Ltd Cotton manufacturers 1930 1930 1
44 Tipping Jn. D. Cotton manufacturer 1930 1931 2
42 Whitworth, Wailes & Co. Artificial silk manufacturers 1930 1932 3
44 Newman Oughtred E. & Co. Ltd. Cotton dress goods manufacturers 1931 1933 3
44 Whitelegg T. & Co. Cotton goods manufacturers 1931 1944 14
42 Simpson (The Robert) Co. Ltd. (Canada) Buying agents 1932 1934 3
42 Rickwood James & Co. Ltd. Shipping manufacturers 1933 1945 13
44 Taylor T. & E. & Co. Shipping merchants 1933 1938 6
44 Whitworth, Wailes & Co. Artificial silk/rayon piece goods manufacturers 1933 1945 13
42 Leon A. & M. J. Shipping merchants 1934 1940 7
42 Marshall Lawrence Cotton goods merchants 1934 1935 2
44 Oughtred E. Newman & Co. Ltd. Cotton dress goods manufacturers 1934 1945 12
42 Shohet Fred Shipping merchants 1934 1940 7
42 Racy Alexander S. Ltd. Shipping marchants 1935 1938 4
42 Ascoli E. & Sons Ltd. Shipping merchants 1937 1951 15
44 Saidi Hassan Shipping merchants 1937 1940 4
44 Uttley Fred Ltd. Cotton manufacturers 1937 1938 2
44 Bennett H. R. & Co. Cotton piece goods merchants 1940 1945 6
42 Gordon W. & Co. Ltd. Shipping merchants 1945 1945 1
42 Greatorex (Manchester) Ltd. Makers-up and packers 1945 1969 25
42 Havelock F. W. Ltd. Cotton manufacturers 1945 1961 17
42 Kenyon Wltr. & Co. Shipping merchants 1945 1965 21
42 Saidi Hassan Shipping merchants 1945 1945 1
42 Walton Harry & Sons Ltd. Cotton manufacturers 1945 1948 4
42 Ydlibi A. & Co. Ltd. Shipping merchants 1945 1951 7
42 Bennett H. R. & Co. Cotton piece goods merchants 1948 1961 14
42 Clarendon Textiles Ltd. Cotton manufacturers 1948 1948 1
42 Craston N. H. & Co Merchant-converter/cotton piece goods manufacturers 1948 1957 10
42 Craston N. H. Ltd. Plastic makers 1948 1951 4
42 Kerruish Ltd. Merchant-converters 1948 1951 4
42 Labadeni Textiles Merchant-converters 1948 1969 22
42 Lancashire Textile Ltd. Merchants 1948 1948 1
42 Oughtred E. Newman & Co. Ltd. Cotton dress goods manufacturers 1948 1959 12
42 Parr, Baker and Co. Ltd. Merchant-converters 1948 1951 4
42 Spruce Manufacturing Co. Ltd Cotton manufacturers 1948 1969 22
42 Whitworth, Wailes & Co. Rayon piece goods manufacturers 1948 1948 1
42 Ydlibi Michl A. Shipping merchants 1948 1951 4
42 Bilbruck Mark & Co Merchant-converters 1951 1967 17
42 Hammons Bros. Merchant-converters 1951 1951 1
42 Saull H. V. Wood turner 1951 1957 7
42 Ydlibi M. & G. (Exporters) Ltd. Shippers 1951 1954 4
42 Berry, Pearce & Co. Shippers 1954 1961 8
42 Gaymay Fabrics Ltd. Merchant-converters 1954 1954 1
42 Sabbag S. & Sons Shipping merchants 1954 1954 1
42 Ydlibi Abdulgani Ltd. Shipping merchants 1954 1969 16
42 Cross C. H. & Sons Ltd. Merchants 1957 1959 3
42 Hussamy L. & Sons Shipping merchants 1957 1965 9
42 Thompson G. K. Manufacturers agent 1957 1957 1
42 Bates Textiles (Manchester) Ltd. Textile merchants 1959 1961 3
42 Singer Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. (stores) Manufacturer 1959 1961 3
42 Planned Giving Ltd. 1961 1965 5
42 Botraco Ltd Merchants 1965 1969 5
42 C. & L. Fabrics Merchant-converters 1965 1969 5
42 Dalby E. & Co Ltd Cotton goods manufacturers 1965 1969 5
42 Elletson R. C. & Co Ltd Merchant-converters 1965 1969 5
42 Emery A. H. & Son Ltd Merchant-converters 1965 1969 5
42 Morgan & Mellor Ltd. Wholesale clothiers 1965 1967 3
42 Textile Trading Co. (Manchester) Ltd Textile merchants 1965 1969 5
42 Thompson & Meredith Textile agents 1965 1969 5
42 D.M.O. Fabrics Ltd Merchant-converters 1967 1969 3
42 Ivansons Ltd Importers 1967 1969 3
42 Goldberg M. Merchant 1969 1969 1
42 North West Arts Association Arts organisation 1969 1969 1

* Records were not published each year so start and end dates are subject to this.

In the 1960s, the building was bought by Sunderland Investments Ltd., led by businessman Oussama Lababedi.

The building was Grade II listed in October 1974.[1][6][7]

Redevelopment[edit]

From 1983, the building then came under the area regeneration efforts of the Manchester Phoenix Initiative.

In 1988, planning permission was granted to change use of the building from offices to a hotel.[8] This was not implemented.

In 1991, the Central Manchester Development Corporation bought the building for £1 million plus £34,000 transaction costs. Following this, the businesses left the building in readiness for redevelopment.

The Manhattan Loft Corporation won approval in 1994 to convert the building into apartments.[9][10] An artists' residence under their aegis and referring to the building as the 'Manhattan Loft Building' took place in it from October to November 1994.[11] A marketing booklet was produced, and living space put for sale. They eventually abandoned the project however.

Artisan Regeneration led by Carol Ainscow, obtained approval in 1995 to convert the building into apartments,[12] with purchase rights from the CMDC once the work completed. On 31 December 1995, the basement and ground floors were used for a New Year's Eve party.[13][14]

The conversion work was done in 1996, to a design by the Pozzoni Design Group.[15] The building was converted into 29 loft apartments with 11 parking spaces in its basement, retaining many of the original interior features such as wooden beams, cast iron pillars, industrial iron features, fireplaces, exposed brick walls, and high ceilings; most of the rooftop chimneys were removed; a 4th floor with vaulted ceilings was created in the previous roof space. Apartments were bought from mid 1996.[16]

The freehold has been owned since 2009 by the 42–44 Sackville Street RTM Company Ltd,[17] of which the members are among the owners of the apartments.

Filmography[edit]

The building has been regularly featured in shoots for film and TV, including:

Former residents[edit]

Further sources of information[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Historic England. "42 AND 44, SACKVILLE STREET, Manchester (1270791)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  2. ^ "M.E.N article about Manchester city centre development". MEN. MEN. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  3. ^ "First Manchester conversion into lofts". Julie Twist. Julie Twist. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  4. ^ archives at Manchester Central Library
  5. ^ "Manchester History". ManchesterHistory.net. Manchester History.net. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  6. ^ a b Manchester Central Library Trade Directory archives
  7. ^ "Slater's Guide, 1909". www.SpecialCollections.le.ac.uk. University of Leicester. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Planning Permission for a hotel". Manchester Council. Manchester Council. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  9. ^ "Manhattan Loft Corporation". Manhattan Loft Corporation. Manhattan Lofts. Archived from the original on 21 May 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  10. ^ "The Independent article - ManhattanLoft Corporation scheme for 42-44 Sackville Street". The Independent. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  11. ^ "'Diverse City' Architecture Towards a New Manchester – Castlefield Gallery". www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk. 16 December 2004. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  12. ^ "004AFFBCBU000 | 42 - 44 Sackville Street Manchester M1 3NF". pa.manchester.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  13. ^ "New Year's Eve party, 1995". Manchester City Council. Manchester City Council. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  14. ^ "Party at 42-44 Sackvillle Street". Julie Twist. Julie Twist. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  15. ^ "Pozzoni Design Group website". Pozzoni Design Group. Pozzini. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  16. ^ "Property details for Flat 44 42-44 Sackville Street Manchester M1 3NF - Zoopla". www.zoopla.co.uk. Archived from the original on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  17. ^ "Companies House". Companies House. Companies House. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  18. ^ "The Good Housekeeping Guide". BBC. BBC. Archived from the original on 18 January 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  19. ^ "Make Time for BreakfastNational Breakfast Week, 2011". You Tube. National Breakfast Week. Archived from the original on 22 January 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  20. ^ "National Breakfast Week". Shake Up Your Wake Up. National Breakfast Week. Archived from the original on 5 June 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  21. ^ "Cucumber trailer". YouTube. Channel 4. Archived from the original on 6 July 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  22. ^ "Trailer - Genius". You Tube. You Tube. Archived from the original on 6 July 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
  23. ^ "Belinda Scandal Twitter profile". Twitter. Twitter. Archived from the original on 6 July 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2017.

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