3, DALE STREET
3, DALE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209576
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 3, DALE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3, DALE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209576
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 3, DALE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, DALE 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:
- 3, DALE 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 84493 98439
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW DALE STREET 698-1/28/77 (North East side) No.3
GV II
Formerly known as: No.23 SPEAR STREET. Millinery warehouse, now clothing shops. 1900-1910. Cast-iron columns and concrete floors, clad in red brick and ochre terracotta, with plinths of polished pink granite; roof concealed. Rectangular plan on corner site at junction with Spear Street. Simplified baroque style. Composed of a 5-storey 4-window entrance block with a splayed corner, and a 3-storey 6-window rear range, with a basement throughout and an attic to the rear range. The facades are rectilinear grids of large windows separated by vertical piers and horizontal bands mostly of terracotta, the piers treated as blocked columns at ground floor and banded pilasters above, with various moulded terracotta enrichments in Art Nouveau style. The splayed corner, treated as a 3-sided full-height porch, has a segmental-headed doorway and overlight under a segmental hood on decorated consoles, windows which are square headed at 1st and 2nd floors and segmental-headed at 3rd and 4th floors, with a dentilled moulded cornice segmentally arched over the topmost, cartouches with pendants on the piers between them, an upstand over each pier; and a domed roof. Balancing the composition, the left end bay has a segmental open pediment in similar style. Otherwise, the ground floor has segmental-arched windows with sloped basement windows immediately beneath; at 1st floor the 3 principal bays have Venetian-style casement glazing; the 2 centre bays have segmental-headed windows at 2nd floor and flat-roofed 3-light windows at 4th floor with dentilled sill-bands. The rear range (to Spear Street) has banded pilasters to the narrow end bay (balancing the returned side of the entrance block), and basement and ground floor matching the front; otherwise, intermediate piers mainly of brick, segmental-headed windows at 2nd floor, a dentilled cornice of terracotta, and low 3-light attic windows with cornices arched over the centre lights. Interior not inspected. Forms group with 18 Oldham Street to left (q.v.) and Sevendale House to right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8449398439
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388059
- 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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