Hanover Building

The Hanover Building is an Edwardian office structure in Manchester's NOMA district featuring pilasters and Corinthian columns across its brick and stone facade. Today it operates as a flexible workspace managed by WeWork, offering private offices, dedicated desks, and meeting rooms for different types of businesses.

Architect Francis Eldred Lodge Harris designed this structure in 1905 for the Cooperative Wholesale Society, and construction completed in 1907. It served as a major administrative hub for one of Britain's largest trading organizations during the early twentieth century.

Stone medallions on the facade reference trading destinations of the Cooperative Wholesale Society, including a famous misspelling of Sydney as Sidney. These details tell the story of the global connections that once mattered to the company.

The building functions primarily as a workspace and is not open for public tours or sightseeing. The best way to experience it is to walk past the exterior in the NOMA district and take in the architectural details of the brick and stone facade.

An additional floor called the Mitchell Memorial Hall was destroyed during the Manchester Blitz of 1940-41 and has never been reconstructed. The gap in the roofline remains visible today when viewing the building from certain angles.

Location: Manchester

Inception: 1907

Architects: Francis Eldred Lodge Harris

Architectural style: Edwardian architecture

GPS coordinates: 53.48638,-2.24050

Latest update: December 10, 2025 16:28