Bridge House, reimagined
The Groves is a Manchester workspace for professional firms that introduce work to each other: architects, designers, agents, surveyors, lawyers, lenders and advisory firms, among others. A place where neighbours become collaborators, introductions turn into instructions, and businesses grow because they are here. Find us at Bridge House on Ducie Street, beside Piccadilly Basin where Manchester's canals met, and a short walk from Manchester Piccadilly. Our 9,250 sq ft is split over two floors: 12 self-contained suites, meeting rooms and a boardroom, an event space for up to 50, and a coffee and wine bar run in-house.
The building spans ground and lower ground floors at Unit 1, Bridge House, 26 Ducie Street, Piccadilly Basin, Manchester, M1 2DQ, converted under Class E use into 12 self-contained suites. Every suite is let to one business at a time, on all-inclusive licences of 12 to 24 months.
The wharf
Where Manchester's canals met
Bridge House sits on Ducie Street, beside Piccadilly Basin. In 1798 the Ashton Canal reached the basin here, and in 1800 a short link at Ducie Street joined it to the Rochdale Canal, connecting the city to the mill towns and across the Pennines to Yorkshire.
The wharves around the basin handled coal, limestone, stone, sand and timber, and great warehouses grew up to serve them. In 1867 the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway built four cotton warehouses here, filling in part of the old canal basin as rail began to take the canals' trade. One survives just along Ducie Street: the seven-storey, Grade II listed London Warehouse, now the Native aparthotel.
The canals declined through the twentieth century and were later restored. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the street found a new kind of trade, with 808 State and Simply Red working from Ducie House. Today the basin is a canal-side quarter of converted warehouses, new homes and workspaces. The trading carries on here, just with different goods.
The Proposition
All-inclusive, one business per suite
One monthly licence fee covers everything, so occupiers can move in and get to work without a stack of separate invoices.
- Rent
- Service charge
- Business rates
- Utilities
- Wifi
- Cleaning
- 5 hours of meeting and boardroom access
- 24/7 access
- Registered business address
- Kitchen with free tea, coffee and milk
- Bike storage and showers
- Monthly social and business events
Interiors
Warm, design-forward suites
See the suites
Twelve suites across ground and lower ground floors, available now for pre-completion enquiries.