Beetham Tower (pictured) in Manchester's Deansgate area, has a reputation for howling, humming and whistling every time the wind picks up

A skyscraper is irritating residents due to a ghastly howling noise it makes every time the wind blows because of a glass blade built at the top.

Beetham Tower, in Manchester's Deansgate area, has developed a reputation for howling, humming and whistling every time the wind picks up, infuriating those living and working in the city centre.

As this astonishing new footage shows the £150million building produces a high-pitched hum which alternately annoys and scares those living in the area.

The video was taken on Sunday, when the city faced gale-force winds.

Residents in the city took to Twitter in their droves over the weekend to post about the eerie humming coming from the 554-ft building.

The 47-floor structure is one of the thinnest skyscrapers in the world, with a height to width ratio of 12:1 on the east-west facade.

The blade on the south side of the building which is thought to cause the howling during windy weather acts as a façade overrun, accentuating its slim form and it also doubles as a lightning rod.

The hum has been recorded as a B below middle C and gets louder the harder the wind blows.

Engineers have scaled the 47-floor tower to try and carry out repairs and modifications to reduce the din generated by its glass blade, but to no avail.

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Work to reduce or eradicate the noise took place in 2007, 2008 and 2010.

Foam pads were installed in 2007, aluminium nosing in 2007 and further work done in February 2010 but attempts to eradicate the noise permanently have been unsuccessful.

The sound has been heard from about 300 metres away and the noise once affected production of popular TV soap Coronation Street.

In 2012, architect Ian Simpson, who lives in an apartment at the top of the tower, publicly apologised for the noise, which is made by the glass blade built at the top of the building.

As the astonishing footage shows the £150million building (pictured) produces a high-pitched hum which alternately annoys and scares those living in the area

WHOLE OF MANCHESTER LISTEN TO ANGRY TOWER. GRAAAAGH. — Angry Tower (@AngryBeetham) December 1, 2015

To all the tourists in Manchester; it's not an air raid siren, you're not being abducted, it's just the Beetham Tower having a whinge. — Ciaran Watkins (@CiaranWatkins) November 29, 2015

The skyscraper, which has been described as the only 'proper' skyscraper in Britain outside London, is so tall it is visible from ten English counties on a clear day.

The top-floor penthouse offers views of Greater Manchester, the Cheshire Plain, the Pennines, the Peak District and Snowdonia.

The building now has its own parody accounts on Twitter - 'Angry Beetham' and 'Happy Beetham' - who each like to claim responsibility when the howling begins.

The Hilton Manchester Deansgate occupies space up to level 22.