Eagle House
EAGLE HOUSE, 62-68, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209494
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Eagle House
- Statutory Address:
- EAGLE HOUSE, 62-68, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209494
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Eagle House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAGLE HOUSE, 62-68, CROSS 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:
- EAGLE HOUSE, 62-68, CROSS 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 83834 98283
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE CROSS STREET 698-1/27/75 (West side) 03/10/74 Nos.62 TO 68 (Even) Eagle House
GV II
Insurance office over shops. 1911, by Charles Heathcote and Sons. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on island site. Baroque style. Three storeys and attic, 5 bays plus 1-bay curved corners, symmetrical; with banded rustication to ground floor, balcony with wrought-iron railings, giant fluted Ionic pilasters to the upper floors, pulvinated frieze, prominent modillioned cornice, and mansard roof with open-pedimented attic dormers. The ground floor has a central round-headed entrance archway with banded cavetto surround and triple keystone, flanked by cartouches, square-headed doorways in the chamfered corners, with keystones, and banded piers between large rectangular shop windows. The upper floors have central feature windows under a semi-circular open pediment surmounted by an eagle, the lower window with an elaborate open-pedimented architrave and the upper round-headed with radiating glazing bars and scrolled keystone; otherwise the 1st floor has large 2-light casement windows in moulded architraves with emphatic triple keystones and the 2nd floor has 2-light sashes with blocked colonnettes. The corners have curved 2-light windows with bold architraves and between the floors lettered shields with putti supporters. Tall banded chimneys. Returned ends in similar style but finished with semi-circular pediments containing 4-light windows. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8383498283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388047
- 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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