Mynshull's House & Britannic Buildings

Next to the Cathedral Visitors' Centre on Cateaton Street is the interesting Mynshull's House. This Grade II listed building is dated 1890. The building is made of red sandstone with terracotta embellishments. The carving is attributed to J. Jarvis Millson and the building to T. B. Elce. It is purported to be the site of the house of the apothacary Thomas Mynshull who died in 1689.



Tucked away in a corner is this interesting inscription:




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Mynshull's House is attached to an intruiging and equally narrow, almost d-shaped building with a half timbered top and a row of small shops on the street level.




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This is the Britannic Buildings.

 


Below is the building in the 1960s before the Clean Air act came into effect and Manchester's buildings were cleaned.




Below you see it in the 1980s after it had been cleaned.





The row of shops was swept aside in the most recent renovation and replaced by a rather "swish" wine shop.