Arkwright House is a Grade II listed building in

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

, England. Designed by local architects, Harry S. Fairhurst, it was completed by 1937 for the

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. Arkwright House is built in a Neoclassical style with some

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motifs which was widely prominent during the 1930s. Arkwright House was heavily damaged in the

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and needed work to repair the building. It is marked by its giant Corinthian order columns and the use of Portland stone as the exterior. The building has been described as "sinister" by one architecture critic, suggesting it shares some similarities with

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where classical buildings were preferred. Hartwell describes the front façade facing Parsonage Gardens as architecturally "impressive". , Arkwright House is a multi-tenanted office building.

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Arkwright House Offices Manchester
{{Authority control Grade II listed buildings in Manchester Houses completed in 1937 Neoclassical architecture in England