The Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building (currently marketed as The Tootal Buildings) at 56 Oxford Street, in Manchester, England, is a late-Victorian warehouse and office block built in a neo-Baroque style for Tootal Broadhurst Lee, a firm of textile manufacturers.

History The warehouse was designed by J. Gibbons Sankey and constructed between 1896 and 1898.The Buildings of England: Lancashire- Manchester and the South East, p. 321 It has been designated a Grade II* listed building.

Nikolaus Pevsner's The Buildings of England describes the warehouse as "large, in red brick striped with orange terracotta, but comparatively classical". The entrance has a "massive central round-headed doorway with banded surround and cartouche dated 1896, set in (an) architrave of coupled banded columns and (a) broken pediment".

The interior has been redesigned, but a First World War memorial by Henry Sellers has been retained, being "marble, with a niche from which the figure (has been) stolen".Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester, p. 182

Behind the warehouse but not visible from Oxford Street is Lee House, the stub of what would have been the tallest building in Europe at , a 17-storey warehouse belonging to the same firm (planned 1928; part completed 1931).Sharp, Dennis, et al. (1969) Manchester. London: Studio Vista; p. 33 Both Churchgate House and Lee House are on the north bank of the Rochdale Canal; Great Bridgewater Street is immediately to the north of them.

Occupants , the building hosts the headquarters of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, including the office of the Mayor of Greater Manchester; until he became an MP in June 2026 Andy Burnham was the mayor.

See also

Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester Listed buildings in Manchester-M1 Manchester cotton warehouses St. James Buildings, which faces the Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building across Oxford Street

Notes

References Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew & Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Manchester and the South East (2004) Yale University Press Hartwell, Clare, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester (2002) Yale University Press British Listed Buildings Churchgate & Lee House Website

External links The Tootal Buildings