Charlotte House
44-48, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197782
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Charlotte House
- Statutory Address:
- 44-48, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197782
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Charlotte House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 44-48, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHARLOTTE HOUSE, 10, CHARLOTTE 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:
- 44-48, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHARLOTTE HOUSE, 10, CHARLOTTE 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:
- SJ 84149 98085
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW CHARLOTTE STREET 698-1/28/46 (South side) 03/10/74 No.10 Charlotte House (Formerly Listed as: CHARLOTTE STREET No.10 Charlotte House) (Formerly Listed as: GEORGE STREET Nos.44, 46 AND 48)
GV II
Includes: Nos.44, 46 AND 48 GEORGE STREET. Cotton merchants' warehouse, now offices. 1857, by Edward Walters. Sandstone ashlar and light red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan. Italian palazzo style. Basement and 5 storeys (with 4-storey rear), a 9-window symmetrical facade, the ground floor treated as a rustic, with rusticated rock-faced basement, ashlar ground floor with cornice, quoined corners, sill- and head-bands to the upper floors, and prominent modillioned cornice. The ground floor has a central round-headed doorway in a square-headed architrave with carved spandrels and a cornice, and segmental-headed windows with keyed architraves. The windows at 1st floor are segmental-headed with moulded architraves, those at 2nd floor have architraves with pediments, and those of the top 2 floors have simpler surrounds, but with a raised rosette on a roundel over each at 3rd floor, and an emphatic sill-band to the 4th floor; and the architraves of the 1st to 3rd floors are vertically linked. The left return wall to George Street has 4 bays to the same height, and a 9-bay continuation with 3 doorways but minus the 4th floor, all in matching style. Interior not inspected. Forms part of a group of 5 similar buildings on this side of the street, 4 by the same architect. Nos 44, 46 and 48 George Street was added to the List 31/5/79.
Listing NGR: SJ8414998085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387981
- 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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