70 AND 72, PORTLAND STREET, 20, NICHOLAS STREET

20, NICHOLAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271071
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: 70 AND 72, PORTLAND STREET, 20, NICHOLAS STREET
Statutory Address:: 20, NICHOLAS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271071
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: 70 AND 72, PORTLAND STREET, 20, NICHOLAS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 20, NICHOLAS STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 70 AND 72, PORTLAND STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 20, NICHOLAS STREET
Statutory Address:: 70 AND 72, PORTLAND STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 84193 97950

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/303 (North West side) Nos.70 AND 72

GV II

Includes: No.20 NICHOLAS STREET. Manufacturers' warehouse, now restaurant, offices, etc. 1873, by Pennington and Bridgen; altered. Sandstone ashlar with some marble dressings (roof not visible). Square plan on corner site, with rounded corner. Eclectic palazzo style with elaborate decoration. Five storeys over basement, 4 bays plus the corner; channelled rustication up to 1st floor, bands between floors, bracketed cornice and blocking course with some antefixae. Round-headed doorway to 3rd bay with run-out voussoirs, mask keystone, divided panelled doors; segmental-headed basement openings, mullioned 2-light ground floor windows; 2-light windows to all upper floors, those at 1st floor with round-headed lights and very elaborate surrounds including marble shafts, panelled aprons, carved spandrels and shallow 2-centred-arched carved canopies; square-headed windows at 2nd and 4th floors, round-headed at 3rd floor, those at 2nd floor with shafts, enriched heads and linked imposts, and those at 3rd floor with linked enriched arched bands over the heads. Single-light windows to the corner, that at 1st floor with a small semi-circular corbelled balcony. Right-hand return to Nicholas Street in matching style. Interior not inspected. Forms group with Nos 74 to 80 to left (q.v.): striking contrast of scale and type illustrating the historical development of this street.

Listing NGR: SJ8419397950

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Legacy System number:: 456050
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.