Lawrence Buildings

Lawrence Buildings
Lawrence Buildings, Mount Street
General information
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
Address	2 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5WQ
Year(s) built	1874–76
Technical details
Material	sandstone ashlar
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Pennington and Bridgen
Designations
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Lawrence Buildings
Designated	2 October 1974
Reference no.	1220257

Lawrence Buildings in Mount Street, Manchester, England, is a Victorian office block constructed for the Inland Revenue in 1874–76 by Pennington and Bridgen in the Gothic Revival style.[1] It is a Grade II* listed building as of 2 October 1974.[2]

The building is of sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. Its skyline is dramatic, with "tourelles and slated spirelet, tall crocketed gable(s), low dormers and tall chimneys".[2] Heavily decorated, it displays a statue of Queen Victoria beneath a canopy on the central front, together with a doorcase flanked by "a lion and a unicorn on pedestals, with an elaborate two-storey oriel window above".[1]

Lawrence Buildings forms a group with St Andrew's Chambers, to the right, in a similar style.[2]

As of 2024^[update], the ground floor is a café, and the remaining building, floors 1–5, are occupied by flexible office space company, incspaces.[3]

See also

• Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester
• Listed buildings in Manchester-M2

Notes

1. Hartwell 2001, p 175
2. "Lawrence Buildings, City Centre, Manchester".
3. Whelan, Dan (22 December 2022). "Incspaces takes 11,000 sq ft in Manchester". Place North West. Retrieved 14 February 2023.

References

• Hartwell, Clare (2001), Manchester, Pevsner Architectural Guides, London: Penguin, ISBN 0-14-071131-7

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