| The Great Northern Warehouse | |
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| The Great Northern warehouse - geograph.org.uk - 1639617.jpg | |
| General information | |
| Location | Manchester, England |
| Address | 235 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 4EN |
| Current tenants | AMC Theatres, Virgin Active, NCP Manchester Ltd |
| Construction started | 1885 |
| Completed | 1898 |
| Renovated | 1998 |
| Design and construction | |
| Owner | X-Leisure |
| Landlord | X-Leisure |
| Architect | A.Ross |
| Structural engineer | W.T.Foxlee |
The Great Northern Warehouse is a former railway goods warehouse building of the Great Northern Railway, which has been redeveloped as a car park and leisure complex. The building is located at the junction of Deansgate and Peter Street in Manchester city centre, England. It became a Grade II* listed building on 3 October 1974.[1]
The building is "a hugely impressive block, of blue brick below (and) red brick with blue brick dressings above."[2] It is of five storeys, with twenty-seven window east and west sides and seventeen window north and south ends; and a frieze with lettering in white brick reading "Great Northern Railway Company's Goods Warehouse" on all four sides.[1] The warehouse was built above the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal, and a dock beneath the building was constructed to allow goods to be transferred to and from canal barges via shafts.[2] It is a "unique survival of a three-way railway goods exchange station, serving the railway, canal and road networks of the Manchester region."[1]
The development is now owned by X-Leisure and comprises an AMC cinema, a casino, bars, a Virgin Active gym, and a multi-storey car park operated by National Car Parks.