About Charles Heathcote
Lived 1850 – 1938 (aged 87–88). Charles Heathcote was a British architect.
Charles Henry Heathcote (2 April 1850 – 16 January 1938) was a British architect who practised in Manchester. He was articled to the church architects Charles Hansom, of Clifton, Bristol. He was awarded the RI Medal of Merit in 1868, and started his own practice in 1872.
Heathcote built city centre buildings such as Parr's Bank (1902) on York Street, the Eagle Star Building (1911) on Cross Street, Lloyds Bank (1915) on King Street, and the earlier 107 Piccadilly textile warehouse (1899). He helped plan the Trafford Park industrial estate, working for British Westinghouse and the Ford Motor Company. He designed 15 warehouses for the Manchester Ship Canal Company. He also worked on the buildings for Richard Lane's Cheadle Royal Lunatic Asylum. Northern Rock Insurance, corner of Cross Street and King Street, 1895 Eagle Insurance Building, 68 Cross Street, 1911 Anglia House, 86 Cross Street, 1904 Royal London House, 188–202 Deansgate, 1904 Onward Buildings, 205–209 Deansgate, 1903–05 107 Piccadilly for Sparrow Hardwick & Company, 1898 (now an Abode Hotel) Commercial Union Buildings, 47 Spring Gardens, 1881–82 1–3 York Street, corner of Spring Gardens, 1902 (formerly Parr's Bank, Grade II*) Joshua Hoyle Building, 50 Piccadilly, 1904
Other Dental Hospital, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, 1908 7–9 Piccadilly, with W. A. Thomas, 1910 (demolished)
Heathcote & Rawle Grade II listed Alliance House, 28–34 Cross Street, 1901 Lancashire & Yorkshire Bank, 43–45 Spring Gardens, 1890
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British architect
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