Lawrence Buildings
7, CENTRAL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220257
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Lawrence Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- 7, CENTRAL STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220257
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Lawrence Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, CENTRAL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- LAWRENCE BUILDINGS, 2 AND 4, MOUNT 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:
- 7, CENTRAL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- LAWRENCE BUILDINGS, 2 AND 4, MOUNT 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 83802 98016
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE MOUNT STREET 698-1/27/242 (West side) 03/10/74 Nos.2 AND 4 Lawrence Buildings
GV II*
Includes: No.7 CENTRAL STREET. Offices (formerly Inland Revenue). 1874, by Pennington and Bridgen; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site. Gothic style with much elaborate detail. Four storeys and attics, an assymetrical 5-window facade to Mount Street (including chamfered corner to left), with sill-bands, 3-sided corner with corbel-table, tourelles and slated spirelet, tall crocketed gable to right of this also with tourelles; central doorway under steeply-pitched canopy with 2-centred arch, flanked by altered windows; 2-centred arched 1- and 2-light windows to the upper floors with cusped lights and hoodmoulds, 2nd-floor niche with statue and crocketed canopy; at the left corner a 2-centred arched doorway with shafts, carved surround and hoodmould, flanked by lions on pedestals holding shields of arms; and immediately over the door the traceried corbel of an elaborately decorated 2-storey canted oriel. Five-bay left return wall to Central Street in similar style, with central gable. Steeply-pitched roof with low box dormers and tall chimney stacks. Interior not inspected. Forms group with St Andrew's Chambers, 20 and 21 Albert Square, in similar scale and style to the right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8380298016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388337
- 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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