Bridgewater Canal Offices

Bridgewater Canal Offices, Chester Road, M15 4WG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283068
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: Bridgewater Canal Offices
Statutory Address:: Bridgewater Canal Offices, Chester Road, M15 4WG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283068
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: Bridgewater Canal Offices
Statutory Address 1:: Bridgewater Canal Offices, Chester Road, M15 4WG

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

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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:: Bridgewater Canal Offices, Chester Road, M15 4WG

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 83190 97355

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 March 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SJ8397 698-1/19/56

MANCHESTER CHESTER ROAD (South side) Bridgewater Canal Offices

03/10/74

II

Officers' Mess of Manchester Regiment, subsequently Bridgewater Canal offices, now ..? c.1800; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. L-plan. Georgian style. Two storeys, ten bays in all but designed to resemble two symmetrical five-bay houses, each with a three-bay pedimented centre breaking forwards very slightly; with a rendered plinth, first-floor sill-band, modillioned wooden eaves cornice and coped gables; 12-pane sashed windows with flat-arched heads. Two chimneys in the centre (either side of ridge). Single-storey one-bay extension at left end, which is side of porch, the front of which has a moulded stone doorcase with rectangular overlight and cornice. Rear fronting Crown Street (to west) has sashed windows in arched reveals, and two arched doorways.

Listing NGR: SJ8319097355

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Legacy System number:: 388004
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.