Former Horrocks, Crewdson and Company Warehouse
FORMER HORROCKS, CREWDSON AND COMPANY WAREHOUSE, LENA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200801
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Horrocks, Crewdson and Company Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER HORROCKS, CREWDSON AND COMPANY WAREHOUSE, LENA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200801
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Horrocks, Crewdson and Company Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER HORROCKS, CREWDSON AND COMPANY WAREHOUSE, LENA 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:
- FORMER HORROCKS, CREWDSON AND COMPANY WAREHOUSE, LENA 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 84664 98168
Details
SJ8498SE
698-1/29/202
MANCHESTER
LENA STREET(North side)
Former Horrocks, Crewdson and Company warehouse
05/02/90
GV
II
Cotton manufacturers' warehouse, now clothing warehouse. Probably 1899, by Charles Heathcote, for Horrocks, Crewdson & Co.; altered. Iron frame and concrete floors, with cladding of red brick and red sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan with chamfered corners, loading formerly at rear. Simplified baroque style (harmonising with associated showrooms and warehouse at 107 Piccadilly(qv). Basement and five storeys, five bays between corner turrets, with banded sandstone piers to ground floor, string-courses above and below all other floors and sandstone bands between, octagonal corner turrets, three-bay pilastrade to third and fourth floors with corniced entablature. The left corner has a segmental-headed doorway with an architrave of engaged columns on pedestals, a swan-neck pediment containing a cartouche, and a wrought-iron overlight; the right-hand corner has a large cartouche with remains of painted lettering "Horrocks Crewdson Limited" and a foliated surround (probably stylised cotton plants). The basement now has glass brick windows, the ground floor has large rectangular windows with altered glazing, the first and second floors have three-light windows with sandstone mullions (many now cased), the third has six-light transomed windows, and the fourth has three-light windows with blocked mullions; all the windows of the upper floors sashed except those with transoms. The right-hand side (to Dale Street) is four bays in similar style (including a two-bay pilastrade to the top floors); the left side has (inter alia) a rebuilt gang bridge at first to fourth floors, linking with the rear of 107 Piccadilly (qv). Rear now covered by additions.
Interior not inspected.
Functional partner to 107 Piccadilly.
Listing NGR: SJ8466498168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388265
- 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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