Dale Street Warehouse

Dale Street Warehouse is an early 19th-century warehouse in the Piccadilly Basin area of Manchester city centre, England. It is a Grade II* listed building as of 10 November 1972.^[1] It is the earliest surviving canal warehouse in the city.^[2] The building is dated 1806 with the initials "WC" on the datestone, indicating that it was designed by William Crosley,^[3] an engineer who worked with William Jessop on the inner-Manchester canal system.

Dale Street Warehouse
Dale Street Warehouse Dale Street (now Carver's) Warehouse
General information
Architectural style	Warehouse
Location	Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Completed	1806
Design and construction
Architect	William Crosley
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Dale Warehouse
Designated	10 November 1972
Reference no.	1200845

Constructed of watershot millstone grit blocks, the four-storey building has timber floors, supported throughout by cast-iron columns, a feature which now makes it unique amongst Manchester warehouses.^[3] The base of the building incorporates four boatholes, which allowed boats to unload their cargoes inside of the warehouse. The warehouse also incorporates a "subterranean wheel-pit containing a 16-foot water-wheel used to drive hoists both in this building and in a former warehouse to the south via a line-shaft tunnel which mostly survives beneath the car-park".^[1]

For many years, the building was a shop and was described in 2000 as "sadly neglected";^[4] the warehouse has now been converted to office space and a café and renamed Carver's Warehouse.

See also

• Greater Manchester portal

• Listed buildings in Manchester-M1
• Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester