Sunlight House
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| Sunlight House | |
|---|---|
 Sunlight House | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Art Deco |
| Location | Quay Street, Manchester, England |
| Completed | 1932 |
| Renovated | 2023 |
| Owner | Karrev and Kinrise |
| Height | |
| Height | 135 ft (41 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 14 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Joseph Sunlight |
| Other designers | Anomaly Architects |
| Designations | |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Sunlight House |
| Designated | 20 June 1988 |
| Reference no. | 1270915 |
| Website | |
| sunlighthouse.co.uk | |
| References | |
| [1] | |
Sunlight House is a Grade II listed building in the Art Deco style on Quay Street in Manchester, England. Completed in 1932 for Joseph Sunlight, at 14 storeys it was the tallest building in Manchester, and the top floors of turrets and multiple dormer windows and mansard roofs create a distinctive skyline.
Sunlight House is a 14-storey steel and concrete structure, clad in Portland stone. The building is almost square in plan, with three street frontages, and a large central light-well. There is a basement swimming pool below a leadlight domed skylight at first floor in the centre of the lightwell.[2] Each of the three street façades are seven bays, with the two street corners expressed as three sided towers, which each rise to a four level octagonal turret, topped by a domed lantern and finial.[3] Behind and between the turrets, the top four floors are expressed as a mansard roof with multiple setback square dormer windows, which together with the turrets create a distinctive skyline and a major feature in the city.
