Langley Buildings
36, HILTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197773
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Langley Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- 36, HILTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197773
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Langley Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 36, HILTON STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- LANGLEY BUILDINGS, 53 AND 55, DALE STREET
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:
- 36, HILTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LANGLEY BUILDINGS, 53 AND 55, DALE 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:
- SJ8469198254
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SE DALE STREET
698-1/29/87 (East side)
Nos.53 AND 55
Langley Buildings
GV II
Includes: No.36 HILTON STREET.
Home trade and mail-order warehouse and newspaper printing
office, now mail-order warehouses. 1908, for J.D.Williams &
Co. Steel columns and girders, concrete floors, with cladding
of brown and red faience and red brick, slate roof with
skylights. Long narrow rectangular plan filling plot bounded
on other sides by China Lane, Back China Lane, and Hilton
Street, with entrance blocks at both ends and warehousing
between. Baroque style. Basement, 2+3 storeys and attic, with
3-bay facade. Very ornate treatment includes channelled
rustication in brown faience at the lower level, a moulded
cornice to 1st floor arched over a curved oriel in the centre,
giant composite pilasters to the upper level with a decorated
cornice and a semi-circular pediment over the centre; splayed
corner doorways under 3-sided 1st-floor oriels; a central
round-headed arch to the 2nd and 3rd floors containing 3-light
sashed windows and a panel between them with a banner lettered
"LANGLEY BUILDINGS", and in the flanking bays round-arched
3-light windows at 2nd floor and 2-light windows on the floors
above, all with pilastered surrounds and those at the top
floor round-headed with keystones. Chimney to left of
pediment; mansard roof. The left side wall of this block has,
inter alia, staggered stairwindows. The rear facade (36 Hilton
Street), mostly brick with some brown faience, is 4 narrow
bays, in similar but much simpler style, including giant
pilasters, coupled doorways in the centre with faience
surrounds and spanned by a Diocletian window with a similar
surround which runs out over elliptical-headed windows in the
flanking bays, the keystones of these forming brackets to
curved 3-light oriels in the same material; staggered
stairwindows in the 2 centre bays with stained glass in
Venetian-style joinery; and a semicircular pediment over the
centre bays. The side walls of the intermediate warehouse
range are 15 bays with brick pilasters and iron-mullion
tripartite sashed windows. INTERIOR: tiled entrance lobby and
doors with Art Nouveau handles; tiled open-well staircases at
both ends (that in the front block mounting round a lift),
both with cast-iron tuning-fork balusters containing
wrought-iron foliation in Art Nouveau style; stained glass
incorporating red dragon of Wales. HISTORY: occupied in 1913
by J.D.Williams & Co and by Daily News Printing Office.
Listing NGR: SJ8469198254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388071
- 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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