CITY POLICE COURTS

CITY POLICE COURTS, MINSHULL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219894
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: CITY POLICE COURTS
Statutory Address:: CITY POLICE COURTS, MINSHULL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219894
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: CITY POLICE COURTS
Statutory Address 1:: CITY POLICE COURTS, MINSHULL STREET

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: CITY POLICE COURTS, MINSHULL 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 84504 98008

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 MINSHULL STREET 698-1/28/234 (North East side) 03/10/74 City Police Courts

II*

City police courts. 1868-71, by Thomas Worthington. Red brick with sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roofs. Rectangular plan on corner site. Italian Gothic style. Two-and-a-half storeys over basement, plus tower at north-west corner, 1:3:3:3:1 bays, the centre gabled, the left end formed by the tower and the right-hand end with a turret; with moulded stone plinth, impost bands, enriched 1st-floor sill-band, Lombard frieze, and stone parapet stepped up to the centre gable with tourelles at the corners of this. Central 2-centred arched doorway with gabled surround including shafts with carved crocket caps; three 2-centred arched 2-light windows above the doorway, and arcaded 5-light attic window in gable; 2, 3 and 2-light windows to both floors of the side ranges, with shafts and 2-centred arched lights with linked hoodmoulds; another doorway to the right-hand end, which has slightly different fenestration to the main floors, arcaded 7-light attic window, and saddle-back roof. Very tall octagonal chimney behind ridge. Tall square tower to left, with bands, 3-light window to 1st floor with balcony, 2 small lancets to next stage, clockface in arched surround, elaborate stone top stage with corner tourelles and arcaded belfry, and slated pyramidal roof. Left return (to Bloom Street) in similar style, with central doorway, windows of 3, 3, 2, 3 and 3 lights, and 2 large gables each with a 2-centred blank arch containing two 2-light windows. Interior not inspected, but probably contains features of equivalent quality.

Listing NGR: SJ8450498008

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Legacy System number:: 388318
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.