Ormond Building, Manchester Metropolitan University (Formerly municipal offices)
ORMOND BUILDING, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (FORMERLY MUNICIPAL OFFICES), LOWER ORMOND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219718
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Ormond Building, Manchester Metropolitan University (Formerly municipal offices)
- Statutory Address:
- ORMOND BUILDING, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (FORMERLY MUNICIPAL OFFICES), LOWER ORMOND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219718
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ormond Building, Manchester Metropolitan University (Formerly municipal offices)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORMOND BUILDING, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (FORMERLY MUNICIPAL OFFICES), LOWER ORMOND 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:
- ORMOND BUILDING, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (FORMERLY MUNICIPAL OFFICES), LOWER ORMOND 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 84222 97028
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497 LOWER ORMOND STREET
698-1/20/600 (West side)
03/10/74 Chorlton-On-Medlock
Ormond Building, Manchester Metropolitan
University (Formerly municipal offices)
GV II
(Formerly Listed as Ormond Building, Manchester Polytechnic
(formerly Municipal Offices))
(Formerly Listed as LOWER ORMOND STREET (West side)
Chorlton-On-Medlock Former Municipal Offices (Manchester
Polytechnic))
Chorlton Union Offices, in use as premises of Manchester
Polytechnic at the time of listing. 1880, by Mangnall and
Littlewood; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings,
slate roofs. Rectangular plan on corner site. Two storeys
over basement, facades of 3:5:1 windows to Lower Ormond
Street and 2:5:1 windows to Cavendish Street, hinged on
an octagonal corner turret; with a band over
the basement windows, sill-bands to both floors, string-course
over ground floor, pilasters at the junctions, brick corbel
tables, moulded stone cornices and brick parapets (part
balustraded). The corner block has a symmetrical 3-bay facade
to Lower Ormond Street, including a segmental-headed doorway
which has an elaborate stone architrave and divided panelled
doors (up 4 steps), round-headed 2-light windows at ground
floor with shafts, round-headed lights and moulded stone heads
with mask keystones, round-headed sashes at 1st floor with
corniced architraves, and a balustraded parapet with
pedimented panel in the centre and urn finials. Its corner
turret to the left, of rusticated stone and panelled ashlar at
ground floor, has 2 narrow sashes and a central cartouche, a
gadrooned and dentilled cornice, above this a 3-sided oriel
with narrow sashed windows in corniced architraves, and an
octagonal turret with a small round-headed window and a
pediment to each side, and a domed roof with a lantern. The
2-bay left return is similar, but with a tall
segmental-pedimented pair of chimneys rising from the parapet.
The outer ranges of both facades are similar but slightly
lower and simpler, and the end bays have tripartite windows to
1st floor and pedimented attics. Various paired chimneys,
coupled to form arches, with cornices.
Listing NGR: SJ8422297028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388298
- 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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