Former Market Hall
Former Market Hall, Liverpool Road, Manchester
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197915
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Market Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Former Market Hall, Liverpool Road, Manchester
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197915
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Market Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Market Hall, Liverpool Road, Manchester
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:
- Former Market Hall, Liverpool Road, Manchester
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 83392 97730
Details
SJ8397NW
698-1/30/214
MANCHESTER
LIVERPOOL ROAD (North side)
Former Market Hall
17/05/74
GV
II
Formerly known as: Higher Campfield Market LIVERPOOL ROAD.
Market hall. 1878, by Mangnall and Littlewood. Cast-iron and wood, with roof of corrugated sheet and glass. Square plan formed by cruciform intersecting naves with aisles in the angles.
Two-storey five-bay symmetrical facade, the centre wider, higher and gabled. Cast-iron columns with crocket caps, each bay divided horizontally by a moulded cornice with small matching pilasters to the screen below this and large-paned glazing above. The wider centre bay has tall segmental-arched doorway in the centre, rising into the glazed upper portion, a latticed band above eaves level, the gable filled with glazing in round-headed lights with slender shafts and margin panes, a bracketed cornice, and the louvred gable-end of a ridge ventilator, with finial. The outer bays have hipped roofs with scallop fringes, and ridge ventilators. Left return side to Barton Street: three bays in matching style; right-hand end linked by glazed roof to rear of Nos 322-330 Deansgate (q.v.).
Interior: arched roof of cast-iron and glass.
Forms group with Air and Space Museum (former Lower Campfield Market) to west (q.v.), by same architects in very similar style. Shown on OS map as Higher Campfield Market.
Listing NGR: SJ8339297730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388283
- 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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