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Portland Street
 Number 1 Portland
Street is a seven-storey building that is part of
the Bruntwood offering of office space in the city
centre. It was designed by the architectural
practice of Gordon White & Hood and built in
1974.
 At street level
there are three retail outlets. When this
page was written in February of 2011 they were
occupied by Tesco Express, Costa Coffee and
Dainese, who specialize in sports clothing.
 This corner was
formerly occupied by the Queen's Hotel. It was built in
1845 as the home of William Houldsworth, a
textile merchant. John J. Parkinson-Bailey
in "Manchester - An Architectural History"
explains that, "The house was left to his
nephew, Thomas Houldsworth, racehorse owner and
owner of Houldsworth's factory on Little Lever
Street, who transformed it into a hotel.
The hotel was later extended to include two more
large brick-built houses." You see
it as the white building below.
 Here it is again in an old postcard image.  Close Window |