45 AND 47, NEWTON STREET
45 AND 47, NEWTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246268
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 45 AND 47, NEWTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 45 AND 47, NEWTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246268
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 45 AND 47, NEWTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 45 AND 47, NEWTON 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:
- 45 AND 47, NEWTON 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 84618 98376
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET 698-1/29/251 (North West side) Nos.45 AND 47
GV II
Textile warehouse, now fashion wholesalers' premises. Mid to later C19, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with gritstone plinth and dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan parallel to street, with loading in rear courtyard. Basement and 5 storeys, a very regular 12-window facade with basement and ground floor of channelled ashlar (now painted white), 1st and 2nd floors treated as a giant arcade with segmental-headed arches, a sill-band to 3rd floor, and a plain parapet with stone coping. No.47 has a round-headed doorway to the right with heavy pilaster jambs and grooved keystone (No.45 has altered doorway). The windows are segmental-headed, diminishing in the height, those at 2nd floor with gritstone sills and panelled aprons (set back within the arches), and those at 4th floor with raised sills; and all have altered glazing. The left end has a wider bay with rectangular loading entrance at ground floor and tripartite windows on the 2 floors above. Rear: sill-bands to 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, windows with wedge lintels (and altered glazing); wall-crane. Interior not inspected. History: occupied c.1905 by Mitchell Bros. of Waterfoot [Rossendale], felt manufacturers. Forms group with No.49 to right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8461898376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454811
- 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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