Lee House
LEE HOUSE, 90, GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218358
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lee House
- Statutory Address:
- LEE HOUSE, 90, GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218358
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lee House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEE HOUSE, 90, GREAT BRIDGEWATER 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:
- LEE HOUSE, 90, GREAT BRIDGEWATER 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 83949 97620
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8397NE GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET 698-1/31/149 (South side) 17/11/87 No.90 Lee House
GV II
Warehouse, forming extension to Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee building (56 Oxford Street, q.v.). 1928-31, by Harry S. Fairhurst and Son; uncompleted. Steel frame clad in brown brick with bronze-framed windows and some Portland stone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan. International style. Eight storeys over basement, 6 bays to Bridgewater Street, with broad corner pilasters and narrow chamfered piers all of brick, vertically continuous canted 3-light fenestration with bronze panels between the floors; except in the 6th bay, which has square windows and brick ribbed panels; and the basement-to-1st-floor levels of the first 2 bays (containing a rectangular loading bay), the 4th bay (a doorway and a window above this) and the 6th (1 window to each floor) which are faced in Portland stone with Art Deco ornament. Portland stone capping slightly arched over each bay, with a metal rail attached by brackets and carried round. Right-hand return and rear similar. History: was designed to rise to 217 feet with 17 storeys, completion prevented presumably by the Great Depression of 1929-31.
Listing NGR: SJ8394997620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388156
- 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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