[6294] Manchester : India House

India House, 73-75 Whitworth Street, Manchester, 1905-09.

By Harry Smith Fairhurst (1868-1945).

For Lloyd's Packing Warehouses Ltd.

Grade ll* listed.

Steel-framed, with cladding of buff terracotta and red brick

with buff terracotta dressings. Edwardian Baroque style.

 

Lloyd's Packing Warehouses Limited had, by merger, become the dominant commercial packing company in early 20th century Manchester.

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