LANGLEY BUILDINGS

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:: 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

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:: 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

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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.