On Sackville Street between Brazil Street and the Rochdale Canal, this office/warehouse building was designed by Pennington and Brigden circa 1870.  Today, it is a Grade II Listed building described by Historic England as, "... Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site parallel to south side of Rochdale Canal. ....



...... Simple late-Georgian style. Four storeys over basement, 10 bays, symmetrical, with channelled plinth, pilastered ground floor with stone frieze and cornice, upper floors treated as giant arcade of round-headed arches with brick pilasters and linked stone imposts, prominent wooden cornice on coupled brackets, and parapet with short square chimneys."



"The centre has coupled round-headed doorways with recessed divided panelled doors in an elaborate stone surround including polished pink granite shafts with composite stone caps, mask keystones, bracketed and dentilled cornice with small lion-mask antefixae."



The 1896 Goad Map of the area confirms that it was a packing warehouse and identifies the occupant as Greatorex & Co.  The 1909 Slater's Manchester & Salford Directory listed the various occupants of number 42 and 44 as follows:



The building has a Wikipedia page which adds significantly to the imformation about its residents:

"By 1969, 153 firms had been in the building, for periods ranging from 1 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 6 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 U.S. of America, and normally the one.... the head of the firm was from."
 


What at first appears to be one building is infact two.  There is a second building on the back of the Sackville building with an entrance off Brazil Street.



Considering the length of Brazil Street it might seem odd that this building's address is 562 Brazil Street and it was back in 1896 when the occupant was "Flohr, Ege & Co".  At one point it seems that Brazil Street ran from Sackville Street to Princess Street.

This was also a shipping warehouse.  Historic England describe it as, "... Probably c.1870; altered. Sandstone ashlar and red brick with sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Small rectangular plan, with loading bay to left. Basement and 5 storeys (the 5th either rebuilt or added), a symmetrical 5-window facade, the 3-bay centre breaking forwards slightly, with rusticated basement, ashlar ground floor with cornice,"