St Andrews Chambers
ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 21, ALBERT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197819
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St Andrews Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 21, ALBERT SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197819
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St Andrews Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 21, ALBERT SQUARE
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:
- ST ANDREWS CHAMBERS, 20 AND 21, ALBERT SQUARE
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 83809 98038
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE ALBERT SQUARE 698-1/27/4 (South side) 03/10/74 Nos.20 AND 21 St Andrew's Chambers
GV II
Offices. 1874, by G.T.Redmayne, for Scottish Widows Fund Life Assurance Society. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with splayed corner. Gothic style. Four storeys and basement, an assymmetrical 2-window facade to Albert Square, a 1-window corner, and 5-window facade to Mount Street; string-courses to all floors, corbel table to balustraded parapet between gables at ends of both facades and at corner. The Albert Square facade has coupled round-headed entrance arches which have shafts with carved capitals, and a carved roundel with figures in a cinquefoil, all under a pointed arch with nail-head enrichment, flanked by roundels (that to the left containing a carved shield and date "1872"); the upper floors have arched single-light windows to the left, and large 2-light windows to the right with Gothic enrichment and the upper with a 2-centred arched head rising into a gable. The splayed corner has chamfered corners and a round-headed window at ground floor, the upper floors corbelled out and containing 2-light Gothic windows (variously enriched), and a crocketed gable flanked by tourelles. The Mount Street facade, 3+2 windows, has a gabled end breaking forwards slightly, the gable flanked by tourelles, windows which are round-headed at ground floor, 2-centred at 1st floor, trefoil-headed at 2nd floor, and square-headed at 3rd floor, those of the gabled portion arcaded, and those at 1st floor to the right also arcaded, with a carved niche in the centre containing a statue. Steeply pitched gables and roof; ridge chimneys. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8380998038
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387865
- 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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