Righton Building
RIGHTON BUILDING, CAVENDISH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197781
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Righton Building
- Statutory Address:
- RIGHTON BUILDING, CAVENDISH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197781
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Righton Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIGHTON BUILDING, CAVENDISH 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:
- RIGHTON BUILDING, CAVENDISH 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:
- SJ8425196984
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497 CAVENDISH STREET
698-1/20/591 (South side)
11/06/91 Chorlton-On-Medlock
Righton Building
GV II
Formerly known as: Cavendish House CAVENDISH STREET
Chorlton-On-Medlock.
Draper's shop and showrooms, now annex to school of art. 1905,
altered. White glazed brick and buff terracotta, slate and
glass roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered
corner. Two storeys over cellars, 5 windows to Cavendish
Street plus the corner to the left; ground floor altered;
terracotta sill-band, frieze, cornice and shaped parapet, the
centre arched with a finial and displaying a banner with
raised lettering "A.D. RIGHTON 1905"; transomed canted oriel
windows of 8 lights to the centre and 6 lights to the outer
bays and the corner. Left return side (to Higher Ormond
Street), 11 bays, the first 5 altered at ground floor as the
front, the next 3 with oval windows at ground floor, and the
last 3 with oriel windows and a doorway, all with a plain
frieze and dentilled cornice, and at 1st floor canted 8-light
oriels alternating with transomed 6-light windows, a
segmental-arched upstand to the parapet over each of the
latter, with moulded terracotta decoration. Interior: central
atrium with gallery of superimposed cast-iron columns, the
lower with open-work brackets forming elliptical arches and
the upper with Corinthian capitals supporting a panelled
frieze, with set-back glazed screen walls to both floors, Art
Nouveau wrought-iron balustrades to the gallery, and a glazed
roof supported by slender iron trusses with open-work
spandrels.
Listing NGR: SJ8425196984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387974
- 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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