Numbers 2, 4, 6 and Right 3 Bays of 8
NUMBERS 2, 4, 6 AND RIGHT 3 BAYS OF 8, KINGSWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107862
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2, 4, 6 and Right 3 Bays of 8
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 2, 4, 6 AND RIGHT 3 BAYS OF 8, KINGSWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107862
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2, 4, 6 and Right 3 Bays of 8
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 2, 4, 6 AND RIGHT 3 BAYS OF 8, KINGSWAY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 2, 4, 6 AND RIGHT 3 BAYS OF 8, KINGSWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7680288032
Details
SJ 7688 SE
11/10
ALTRINCHAM
KINGSWAY
(south side)
Nos. 2, 4, 6 and right 3 bays of 8
G.V.
II
Shops and offices. Dated 1870. Red sandstone, rock-faced
and ashlar with slate roof and brick rear. 11 bays, 3
storeys with shops on ground floor and offices above.
Victorian Gothic. Enriched first floor sill band, coped
modillion eaves parapet. Arcaded ground floor formerly with
barley sugar Y-tracery to the shop fronts, now only existing
to bay 6. Bays 1, 2 and 3 have been drastically re-faced in
brick. Arcade columns have moulded bases and capitals and
pilasters separate bays 3 and 4, and 8 and 9 which run up the
entire building. Each 3 bays on first floor have 4 lancet
lights the centre 2 being coupled with plate tracery and
under hoodmoulds with enriched stops. The second floor
windows which follow a similar pattern have shouldered
heads, the paired ones under corbelled gablets which break
through the eaves parapet.
Listing NGR: SJ7680288032
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212764
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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