The store is located in a purpose-built Art Deco building on Deansgate, with of retail space, making it Manchester's second largest department store (the largest being Debenhams on Market Street) at . The present store was designed by Harrod's in-house architect, Louis David Blanc, with input from a local architect J. S. Beaumont, in 1938 and completed in 1939. It is a Grade II listed building. It operated for many years alongside the Victorian store building on the opposite side of Deansgate (opened in 1873). A large multi-storey car park stands to the west of the store.