Old Exchange

5, 6 AND 7, ST ANNS PASSAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197936
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:
Old Exchange
Statutory Address:
5, 6 AND 7, ST ANNS PASSAGE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197936
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:
Old Exchange
Statutory Address 1:
5, 6 AND 7, ST ANNS PASSAGE
Statutory Address 2:
OLD EXCHANGE, 29 AND 31, KING 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
5, 6 AND 7, ST ANNS PASSAGE
Statutory Address:
OLD EXCHANGE, 29 AND 31, KING 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 83772 98318

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE KING STREET 698-1/27/182 (North side) 03/10/74 Nos.29 AND 31 Old Exchange

GV II

Includes: Nos.5, 6 AND 7 ST ANN'S PASSAGE. Range of shops with passage through. Dated 1897 on frieze over ground floor; altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of red sandstone and terracotta, slated mansard roof. Rectangular plan with central through-passage. Eclectic style. Three storeys and attics, 3 structural bays; with pilastered piers to ground floor (those to left altered), frieze lettered "AD / OLD EXCHANGE / 1897" and cornice, C20 shop fronts; giant Ionic pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors, ornamental terracotta panels between 1st and 2nd floors, bracketed frieze and moulded main cornice with low parapet, 4 moulded lateral chimney stacks and 4 symmetrically disposed segmental-pedimented dormers in the roof. The 1st floor has wide elliptical-arched windows (one in the 1st bay and 2 in each of the others), with decorated spandrels and wooden mullion-and-transom glazing; the 2nd floor has mullioned windows with segemental-headed lights (3 in the 1st bay, 2+2 in the 2nd bay, and 3+3 in the 3rd bay).

Listing NGR: SJ8377198321

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
388235
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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