Former Grosvenor Picture Palace
FORMER GROSVENOR PICTURE PALACE, GROSVENOR STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218431
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Grosvenor Picture Palace
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GROSVENOR PICTURE PALACE, GROSVENOR STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218431
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Grosvenor Picture Palace
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GROSVENOR PICTURE PALACE, GROSVENOR 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:
- FORMER GROSVENOR PICTURE PALACE, GROSVENOR 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 84385 97067
Details
SJ 8497, 698-1/20/597,
MANCHESTER,
GROSVENOR STREET (South side),
Chorlton-On-Medlock,
Former Grosvenor Picture Palace
03/10/74
GV
II
Cinema, now snooker club. 1912, altered. Green and white
faience tiles, slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site,
with chamfered corner. Two storeys plus corner pavilion and
small attic, with facades of four bays to Grosvenor Street and six
bays to Oxford Road, hinged on a wide 3-bay canted corner
surmounted by the pavilion. Ground floor of channelled green
tiling, protected by an added flat metal and glass canopy
suspended on metal ties; green Ionic pilasters to the Oxford
Road facade, channelled green pilasters to the corner, white
pilasters to Grosvenor Street, with a green frieze and cornice
to all; white parapet with 4-bay attic to Grosvenor Street,
upstands over centre and right-hand end of Oxford Street
facade. The corner has a 3-bay entrance with Ionic columns
distyle in antis (but now crossed by the canopy), at first floor
a large panel in the centre with raised lettering "THE
GROSVENOR PICTURE PALACE" and swagged roundels in the flanking
bays; and a 3-bay open-fronted pavilion with coupled Ionic
columns, geometrical metal railings, cornice, balustraded
parapet and domed roof. The Oxford Road facade has panels with
green aprons and keyed oculi, but the Grosvenor Street facade
is less regular. Interior: glazed tiling and geometrical
banding to the stairs (etc); auditorium altered by insertion
of suspended ceiling, but most of original decoration
survives, including gallery with moulded cartouches, swags,
raised panels, etc. History: said to be the largest cinema
outside London at that date.
Listing NGR: SJ8438597067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388164
- 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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