Atlas Chambers
ATLAS CHAMBERS, 98, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197941
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Atlas Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- ATLAS CHAMBERS, 98, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197941
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Atlas Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ATLAS CHAMBERS, 98, 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.
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:
- ATLAS CHAMBERS, 98, 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 83987 98247
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE KING STREET 698-1/27/197 (South side) No.98 Atlas Chambers
GV II
Insurance company office, now banking hall and offices. 1929, by Michael Waterhouse (grandson of Alfred Waterhouse), for the Atlas Assurance Company. Steel-framed with cladding of Portland stone (roof not visible). Narrow rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered corner. C20 classical style. A 6-storey 4-window facade plus 3-window attic, consisting of a 2-storey banking hall with a cornice, then 3 regular storeys (the upper 2 with shallow giant pilasters) with another cornice, and the top floor and attic treated as a 2-storey 3-window pedimented penthouse with flanking 1-storey wings. The banking hall has a plate-glass screen with a bronze doorway set in the centre and surmounted by a bronze Atlas with golden globe, a bronze plaque on the corner and a cartouche above this, and its left return side (to Brown Street) has a similar plate-glass screen with fluted Doric columns distyle in antis. The upper floors have very regular fenestration (matching that of Ship Canal House to the right) consisting of tilting casement windows with margin panes and plain surrounds, the one-window corner and 6-window return side matching the front (but the attic storey set back at this side). Forms group with Ship Canal House (with which it is easily confused at first sight; q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8398798247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388250
- 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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