Victoria Buildings

VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 6-16, DANTZIC STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209985
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Victoria Buildings
Statutory Address:
VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 6-16, DANTZIC STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209985
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Victoria Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 6-16, DANTZIC STREET
Statutory Address 2:
VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 7 AND 9, THORNILEY BROW

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 6-16, DANTZIC STREET
Statutory Address:
VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 7 AND 9, THORNILEY BROW

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 84194 98723

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 DANTZIC STREET 698-1/17/97 (East side) Nos.6 TO 16 (Even) Victoria Buildings

II

Includes: Nos.7 AND 9 Victoria Buildings THORNILEY BROW. Warehouses and workshops, probably for boot and shoe manufacturers; undergoing renovation at time of survey. Probably c.1860; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Large triangular plan with narrow chamfered corners, on triangular island site, probably with internal courtyard or light-well. Italianate style. Five storeys over basement, 22 windows; with stone plinth, 1st-floor sill-band, bracketed eaves and hipped roof. The ground floor has windows (a), doorways (b) and waggon archway (c) arranged a-a-a-b-b-a-a-b-c-a-a-b-a-a-b-b-a-a-a: the windows and doorways in arcades of round-headed arches with stone imposts and moulded stone heads with keystones, the doorways also with cornices, and the waggon archway is segmental-headed, with a keyed stone head and cornice. The upper floors have very regular closely-spaced fenestration, the windows of the 1st and 2nd floors segmental-headed and arcaded, those at 1st floor with linked stilted stone heads and those at 2nd floor with hoodmoulds. The 3rd and 4th floors (partly concealed by scaffolding at time of survey) appear to be square-headed, with flat-arched heads and keystones. Some windows unglazed at time of survey, but most 4-pane sashed. Various chimneys. Rear similar but simpler, but with paired full-height loading slots. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8419498723

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Legacy System number:
388082
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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