Grand Hotel
GRAND HOTEL, AYTOUN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197797
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GRAND HOTEL, AYTOUN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197797
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grand Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAND HOTEL, AYTOUN 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:
- GRAND HOTEL, AYTOUN 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 84501 98137
Details
SJ 8498 SW, 698-1/28/14
MANCHESTER,
AYTOUN STREET (East side),
Grand Hotel
20/10/87
GV
II
Warehouse, later hotel. 1867, by Mills and Murgatroyd, altered
as hotel 1883 by the same architects; subsequently altered.
Sandstone ashlar (roof concealed). Large almost-square plan.
Eclectic classical style. Basement and five storeys (1+2+1 and
the top floor treated as an attic), 3:5:3 bays to Aytoun
Street, symmetrical, the centre slightly recessed, rusticated
piers to ground floor (with alternate bands of raised
punch-dressed masonry), cornice to ground floor, the first and
second floors of the outer bays treated as pilastered arcades of
round-headed arches with linking carved imposts and keyed
heads, a modillioned cornice over the second floor, pilastered
third floor, panelled frieze and very prominent mutuled cornice
over this, and a shallow attic storey with pilasters to the
outer bays (C20 second attic added above this). Central
round-headed arched entrance in the centre, under a
segmental-arched cornice on elaborate consoles with masks;
segmental-headed cross-window casement windows at ground
floor, pedimented cross-windows at first floor and round-headed
cross-windows at second floor; small coupled round-headed windows
at third floor, and small coupled attic windows. Left return to
Hope Street and right-hand return to Chatham Street, both
3:6:3 bays, in matching style, but with banded chimneys
between the bays.
Listing NGR: SJ8450198137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387910
- 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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