English: Designed by J.S. Beaumont and built in 1939, "unlike his usual work, or anything else in Manchester", observed Pevsner. He calls it a "sublimely monumental block ... in the German style of store architecture created by Messel early in the century, but stripped down. Windows are vertical strips of greenish glass blocks, with a barely perceptible camber introducing subtle curves and enlivening the stark [Portland stone] elevations with reflecting light." Grade II listed.