Torbreck has 150 units, including bedsits, one, two and three bedroom units, and penthouse flats, with brick and reinforced concrete party walls.
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With side access opening directly into the hotel and its party wall removed, the former stores building was converted into a nightclub.
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The party walls and the intermediate columns are articulated in counterplay with the horizontal concrete window band that projects at living room level.
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Each house is a mirror reflection of the other, with the front door opening into a long hall along the brick party wall.
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The main house was demolished in 1832, although the four-story east and west walls survived as party walls shared with the adjoining buildings.
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In 1949 an easement was granted over the site, allowing it to be sold as two separate stores divided by a party wall.
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The site is subject to restricted covenants and party wall awards on all four sides, and it is located immediately beside the Bridgewater Canal.
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Separated by a brick party wall which does not rise above the roofline, from the street, the two houses appear as a single entity.
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Hallways or vestibules from Stanley Street lead to a timber staircase, located along the northwest party wall half way between the two street frontages.
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Party walls are mostly rendered brickwork, original internal walls and ceilings are lathe and plaster, and floors are concrete or timber on the upper levels.
