The Pankhurst Centre
THE PANKHURST CENTRE, 62, NELSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197896
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Pankhurst Centre
- Statutory Address:
- THE PANKHURST CENTRE, 62, NELSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197896
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Pankhurst Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PANKHURST CENTRE, 62, NELSON 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:
- THE PANKHURST CENTRE, 62, NELSON 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 84992 96288
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497 NELSON STREET, Chorlton-On-Medlock 698-1/21/602 (North side) 10/06/74 No.62 The Pankhurst Centre
GV II*
One of a pair of villas, now part of The Pankhurst Centre (with No.60 to the right, q.v.). c.1840, altered. Red brick (the left side rendered and mostly scored), hipped slate roof. Two storeys and 3 bays, formerly symmetrical, with pedimented centre breaking forwards slightly; stone plinth, modillioned eaves cornice; central ellipical-headed doorway with set-in doorcase of slender Tuscan columns with entablature and cornice, panelled door and plain fanlight; 4-pane sashed windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, except ground floor right which has added rectangular bay window (now painted black) with slated pentice roof. Left return wall has (inter alia) a 2-storey canted bay to the rear, with 2-centred arched windows which have intersecting glazing bars and hoodmoulds. Interior not inspected. History: home of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst at the time when she founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 (part of the Suffragette Movement).
Listing NGR: SJ8500296292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388346
- 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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