Dale Street Warehouse is an early 19th century warehouse in the Piccadilly Basin area of

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, England. It is a

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as of 10 November 1972. It is the earliest surviving canal warehouse in the city. The building is dated 1806 with the initials "WC" on the datestone indicating that it was designed by William Crosley, an engineer who worked with

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on the inner-Manchester canal system. Constructed of watershot millstone grit blocks, the four-storey building has timber floors, supported throughout by

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columns, a feature which now makes it unique amongst Manchester warehouses. The base of the building incorporates four boatholes which allowed boats to unload their cargoes inside of the warehouse. The warehouse also incorporates a "subterranean wheel-pit containing a 16-foot

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used to drive hoists both in this building and in a former warehouse to the south via a line-shaft tunnel which mostly survives beneath the car-park". For many years, the building was a shop and was described in 2000 as "sadly neglected";John J. Parkinson-Bailey ''Manchester: an Architectural History'', p. 323 the warehouse has now been converted to office space and a café and renamed Carver's Warehouse.

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* Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hartwell, Clare & Hyde, Matthew, ''The Buildings of England: Lancashire - Manchester and the South East'' (2004)

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* Hartwell, Claire ''Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester'' (2001) Yale University Press {{Manchester B&S Commercial buildings in Manchester Warehouses in England Grade II* listed buildings in Manchester Grade II* listed commercial buildings Grade II* listed industrial buildings

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