A pioneering grade-II listed building in Chinatown is set to be converted into flats, new plans show.
Fraser House, on the corner of Portland Street and Charlotte Street, was designed by Edward Walters. He was the Victorian architect behind the Free Trade Hall on Peter Street, the Castlefield Congregational Chapel on Deansgate, and The Firs in Fallowfield.
Walters was seen as one of the leading lights within Manchester’s ‘palazzo’ architectural movement. That saw the ‘palazzo’ style of Renaissance Italy applied to new warehouses being built in the city at the height of its ‘Cottonopolis’ fame.
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