Onward Buildings
ONWARD BUILDINGS, 205-209, DEANSGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210092
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Onward Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- ONWARD BUILDINGS, 205-209, DEANSGATE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210092
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Onward Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ONWARD BUILDINGS, 205-209, DEANSGATE
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:
- ONWARD BUILDINGS, 205-209, DEANSGATE
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 83568 98021
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE DEANSGATE 698-1/27/108 (East side) Nos.205 TO 209 (Odd) Onward Buildings
GV II
Band of Hope building, now shop and offices. 1903-5, by Charles Heathcote. Red brick with dressings of yellow terracotta, slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street, with rounded corners. Free Baroque style. A 4-storey 5-window facade, symmetrical, with banded ground and 3rd floors, prominent bracketed cornice, hipped roof with banded chimneys to the front and sides. The ground floor has a central round-headed entrance arch with cavetto surround and keystone enriched with foliation, mask, and raised lettering "BAND OF HOPE", a curved balcony over the arch with wrought-iron railings, and a wide segmental-headed window each side; the 1st floor and 2nd floors have cross-windows, those at 1st floor taller and with eared architraves and triple keystones, and those at 2nd floor with shouldered architraves and single keystones; the 3rd floor has keyed oculi; and above the cornice is a flat-roofed dormer between the chimneys. The corners are chamfered at ground floor and curved above, with similar windows at 1st and 2nd floors only and applied lettering "ONWARD BUILDINGS" between these windows. Returned sides similar but simpler. Interior reported to have meeting hall with plaques or tiles of Lancashire Temperance Societies. History: built for federation of Temperance Societies.
Listing NGR: SJ8356898021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388092
- 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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