Merchants Warehouse
MERCHANTS WAREHOUSE, CASTLE STREET, M3 4LZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197778
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Merchants Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- MERCHANTS WAREHOUSE, CASTLE STREET, M3 4LZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197778
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Merchants Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERCHANTS WAREHOUSE, CASTLE STREET, M3 4LZ
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:
- MERCHANTS WAREHOUSE, CASTLE STREET, M3 4LZ
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 83099 97526
Details
SJ 8397 NW,
698-1/30/39,
MANCHESTER,
CASTLE STREET (West side),
Merchants Warehouse
20.06.88
GV
II
Former canal warehouse serving Bridgewater Canal terminus, offices from early C21. Dated 1823 on pier between shipping holes; altered, fire-damaged and
derelict when surveyed: Brown brick in English garden-wall bond, with some
sandstone dressings, slate roof (damaged). Rectangular plan of
6 structural bays occupying whole of west end of north quay.
West facade (to the canal) 4 storeys and 1:2:6:2:1 windows
separated by former loading slots. The centre has two semi-circular arched shipping holes rising into the 1st floor,
with a cylindrical sandstone pier and responds which have
concave caps brought to a square, that in the centre inscribed
"1823", timber lintels and wooden screens in the arches above;
the loading slots have doorways at ground floor but are
otherwise bricked-up, and those to the right have wooden
gabled hoist-canopies; small round-headed windows with glazing
bars and tilting casement openings in the lower half, all
damaged. Moulded stone cornice with blocking course. The east
facade is 3-storeyed, with similar windows and 4 surviving
3-stage loading slots (only partly bricked up) but the top
floor of the northern half and its roof are missing. INTERIOR:
not inspected, but reported to have timber beams, and remains
of winding gear in roof. Distinctive feature of Bridgewater
Canal terminus site, of considerable historical interest.
Listing NGR: SJ8309997526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387967
- 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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