Estate Exchange
ESTATE EXCHANGE, 46, FOUNTAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200835
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Estate Exchange
- Statutory Address:
- ESTATE EXCHANGE, 46, FOUNTAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-07-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/03775/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200835
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Estate Exchange
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESTATE EXCHANGE, 46, FOUNTAIN 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:
- ESTATE EXCHANGE, 46, FOUNTAIN 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 84094 98236
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW FOUNTAIN STREET 698-1/28/137 (West side) 03/10/74 No.46 Estate Exchange
II*
Overseers' and Churchwardens' office, now commercial offices. 1852, raised 1858, both by Thomas Worthington; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan. Italian palazzo style. Three-storey 4-window facade with basement and attic (top 2 floors added 1858), with channelled corner pilasters, stone basement, sill-bands to all floors, stone attic storey, very prominent modillioned cornice, and pierced parapet with corner chimneys of brick; round-headed doorway to the right, with panelled architrave and cornice, recessed porch with internal steps; 3 cross-windows at ground floor with panelled jambs and cornices; 4 cross-windows at 1st floor with moulded architraves and pediments on consoles (4th window displaced slightly to the right, aligned over the door); 7-bay arcade of round-headed arched windows at 2nd floor including a central coved niche with shell canopy; 7 oeil-de-boeuf attic windows. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8409498236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388137
- 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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