| The Tootal Buildings | |
| Former Names: | Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building Churchgate House |
| Map Type: | Greater Manchester |
| Coordinates: | 53.4752°N -2.2422°W |
| Location Town: | Manchester |
| Location Country: | England |
| Building Type: | Commercial office |
| Owner: | Helical Bar PLC |
| Main Contractor: | Capital Properties (UK) Ltd |
| Start Date: | 1896 |
| Inauguration Date: | 1898 |
| Renovation Date: | 2015 |
| Floor Count: | 6 |
| Architect: | J. Gibbons Sankey |
The Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building (currently marketed as The Tootal Buildings[1]) at No. 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.
It was designed by J. Gibbons Sankey and constructed between 1896 and 1898.[2] It has been designated a Grade II* listed building.[3]
Nikolaus Pevsner's The Buildings of England describes the warehouse as "large, in red brick stripped with orange terracotta, but comparatively classical".[2] It 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".[3]
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".[4]
Behind it and not visible from Oxford Street is Lee House, the stub of what would have been the tallest building in Europe at 217feet, a 17-storey warehouse of the same firm (planned 1928; part completed 1931).[5] 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.
, the building hosts the headquarters of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, including the office of the Mayor of Greater Manchester.[6] [7]