Chancery Chambers
CHANCERY CHAMBERS, 1, CHANCERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197810
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Chancery Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- CHANCERY CHAMBERS, 1, CHANCERY LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197810
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Chancery Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANCERY CHAMBERS, 1, CHANCERY LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHANCERY CHAMBERS, 55, BROWN STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- CHANCERY CHAMBERS, 58, SPRING GARDENS
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:
- CHANCERY CHAMBERS, 1, CHANCERY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- CHANCERY CHAMBERS, 55, BROWN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHANCERY CHAMBERS, 58, SPRING GARDENS
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 84000 98205
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE BROWN STREET 698-1/27/32 (East side) 03/10/74 No.55 Chancery Chambers
GV II
Includes: No.58 Chancery Chambers SPRING GARDENS. Includes: No.1 Chancery Chambers CHANCERY LANE. Warehouse, now offices. Mid to later C19; altered. Sandstone ashlar and red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Trapezoidal plan on end-of-block site. Italian palazzo style. Basement and 5 storeys (diminishing in height), a 4:1:6-window range, with channelled rusticated ashlar ground floor, rusticated quoins and sill-bands above, and prominent modillioned cornice; a wide segmental-headed archway to the 5th bay, now with inserted doorway, and tripartite windows on all floors above this, all except the topmost with pedimented surrounds; segmental-headed windows, except those at top floor which are square, all with moulded architraves and those at ground and 1st floors with keystones, and all sashed without glazing bars (except those to the basement). Left (north) return wall in English garden wall bond, similar fenestration. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8400098205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387955
- 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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