[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.

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".

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