Canal-Side Mill Loft

This two-bedroom loft sits on the second floor of a red-brick cotton mill that was converted into apartments in 2008. The living space keeps the original cast-iron columns and timber beams, and a steel staircase leads up to a mezzanine that the current owner uses as a study and reading area.

The kitchen runs along the back wall with an island that seats four. Both bedrooms are doubles, the main one with an en-suite shower room, and the windows face the canal rather than the street, so the flat is quieter than its postcode suggests.

Ancoats has some of the best independent food in the city, and Piccadilly station is a twelve-minute walk. The lease has 989 years remaining and the building has a secure undercroft parking space allocated to the flat.