Numbers 17a and 19 Baillie Street are Grade II Listed buildings.  Number 17a, on the left, is according the Historic England, "... an increasingly rare example of a textile warehouse in an important central location in Rochdale, which is complemented by the contemporary attached showroom (No.19) for the selling of the stored goods to wholesale customers ..... the two buildings are designed as a set-piece sharing common architectural details, though the brick warehouse is plainer and more functional while No.19 has a greater elaboration to its main façade, which incorporates an ashlar-stone ground floor and decorative, pedimented parapet, as was typical of a showroom designed to catch the eye and entice customers. .....



.... The numbering of buildings on Baillie Street has altered over the years and so there is a degree of uncertainty as to which occupants were in which buildings. In 1885 Worrall's Directory lists a J S & J Greenhalgh at No.19b Baillie Street, described as a warehouse. The Greenhalghs were flannel manufacturers with a mill called Roach Mill on Shade Walk. The 1894-5 Duncan Directory lists the Inland Revenue at No.19 Baillie Street and Greenhalghs at No.19a. By 1916 the present numbering system had been adopted and Clegg's Directory lists HM Customs and Excise at No.19 and Greenhalghs and another company, Garside & Co, in No.17a. This suggests that although Greenhalghs may have originally occupied both the warehouse and adjoining showroom or office building, this did not continue for long and while the company retained the warehouse, the Inland Revenue then occupied the adjoining building as a tax office.

The warehouse at 17a Baillie Street continued in this use during much of the C20. It was listed at Grade II in 1985. Subsequently in the 1980s it was converted to a public house, though is no longer in use as such. No.19 remains in use as a commercial premises."