AUSTIN HOUSE

AUSTIN HOUSE, 14 AND 16, CHARLOTTE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197783
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: AUSTIN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: AUSTIN HOUSE, 14 AND 16, CHARLOTTE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197783
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: AUSTIN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: AUSTIN HOUSE, 14 AND 16, CHARLOTTE 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:: AUSTIN HOUSE, 14 AND 16, 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 84186 98063

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW CHARLOTTE STREET 698-1/28/48 (South side) 03/10/74 Nos.14 AND 16 Austin House

GV II

Textile merchants' warehouses, now offices. 1860, by Edward Walters; altered. Sandstone ashlar and light red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Plan rectangular except for rear corner interlocking with No.12 to right. Italian palazzo style. Basement and 5 storeys, a symmetrical 8-window facade, the ground floor of ashlar treated as a rustic, with a cornice to this, channelled corner pilasters and variously-enriched sill-bands to the upper floors, and a very prominent cornice on large brackets, surmounted by 9 brick chimneys with modillioned stone cornices. The ground floor and basement form a pilastered arcade of round-headed arches, including coupled doorways in the centre with richly-foliated carved spandrels, keystones with masks linked to triglyphs in a frieze with corrupt-leaf enrichment; and windows divided equally between basement and ground floor, with enrichment to the heads including keystones and triglyphs like those over the doorways. The windows at 1st floor have architraves with straight cornices, those at 2nd floor are segmental-headed with pedimented architraves (alternately segmental), those at 3rd floor have stilted segmental heads and linked impost bands, and those at 4th floor have enriched aprons in a deep sill-band. All glazing altered. The left side wall is in similar but simpler style. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8418698063

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Legacy System number:: 387983
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.