Arkwright House is a Grade II listed building in
Manchester
Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...
, England. Designed by local architects,
Harry S. Fairhurst, it was completed by 1937 for the
English Sewing Cotton Company
Bagley & Wright was a Spinning (textiles), spinning, doubling and weaving company based in Oldham, Lancashire, England. The business, which was active from 1867 until 1924, 'caught the wave' of the cotton-boom that existed following the end of th ...
. Arkwright House is built in a
Neoclassical style with some
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
motifs which was widely prominent during the 1930s.
Arkwright House was heavily damaged in the
1992 Manchester bombing and needed work to repair the building. It is marked by its giant
Corinthian order
The Corinthian order (, ''Korinthiakós rythmós''; ) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Ancient Roman architecture, Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric or ...
columns and the use of
Portland stone
Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. The quarries are cut in beds of whi ...
as the exterior.
The building has been described as "sinister" by one architecture critic, suggesting it shares some similarities with
Nazi architecture
Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany. It is characterized by three forms: a Stripped Classicism, stripp ...
where classical buildings were preferred. Hartwell describes the front façade facing Parsonage Gardens as architecturally "impressive".
, Arkwright House is a multi-tenanted office building.
See also
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Listed buildings in Manchester-M3
Manchester is a city in Northwest England. The M3 postcode area of the city includes the western part of the city centre. The area contains 79 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, five are list ...
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Grade II listed buildings in Manchester
There are many Grade II listed buildings in the city of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England. The majority of Manchester's listed buildings date from the Victorian era, Victorian (1837–1901) and Edwardian era, Edwardian (1901–1911) e ...
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Grade II listed buildings in Manchester
Houses completed in 1937
Neoclassical architecture in England