Detached Block of Schoolroom Approximately 20 Metres South of Chethams Hospital

DETACHED BLOCK OF SCHOOLROOM APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHETHAMS HOSPITAL, LONG MILLGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197920
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:
Detached Block of Schoolroom Approximately 20 Metres South of Chethams Hospital
Statutory Address:
DETACHED BLOCK OF SCHOOLROOM APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHETHAMS HOSPITAL, LONG MILLGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197920
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Detached Block of Schoolroom Approximately 20 Metres South of Chethams Hospital
Statutory Address 1:
DETACHED BLOCK OF SCHOOLROOM APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHETHAMS HOSPITAL, LONG MILLGATE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DETACHED BLOCK OF SCHOOLROOM APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF CHETHAMS HOSPITAL, LONG MILLGATE

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 83882 98861

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8398NE LONG MILLGATE 698-1/26/226 (West side) 03/10/74 Detached block of Schoolroom approx. 20m south of Chetham's Hospital (Formerly Listed as: FENNEL STREET Detached block of Schoolroom)

GV II

Schoolroom, now part laundry and part schoolroom. 1878, by Alfred Waterhouse; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, slate roof. Rectangular plan on north-south axis, plus smaller parallel range to rear projecting at north end. Perpendicular style. Single storey (altered internally by insertion of upper floor), 6 bays, with buttresses and sill-band carried round; gabled porch to 1st bay with moulded Tudor-arched doorway and panelled double doors up 5 steps; extruded chimney stack to 2nd bay tapered to tall octagonal chimney; transomed 3-light windows to the other bays with cusped lights; moulded corbels and cornice. Large transomed 4-light window in each gable wall, with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould, and small 2-light windows above these; coped gables with crocket finials. Rear wing has two 3-light windows in gable wall and porch in angle. Interior: upper floor inserted at transom level; brattished wallplates, arch-braced kingpost roof with windbraces.

Listing NGR: SJ8388298861

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Legacy System number:
388292
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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