Victoria Square
VICTORIA SQUARE, OLDHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246277
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Square
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA SQUARE, OLDHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246277
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA SQUARE, OLDHAM ROAD
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:
- VICTORIA SQUARE, OLDHAM ROAD
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 84966 98803
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498 OLDHAM ROAD, Ancoats 698-1/17/459 (South side) 20/06/88 Victoria Square (Formerly Listed as: OLDHAM ROAD, Ancoats (South side) Victoria Buildings)
GV II
Tenement block. 1889, by Henry Spalding and A.W.Cross, for Manchester Corporation; altered. Red brick with terracotta dressings, slate roofs. Square courtyard plan with balcony access inside courtyard. The Oldham Road facade is 5 storeys (plus attics to the centre and ends), 18 main bays, symmetrical (with windows grouped 3:1:1:1:1:1:2:1:1:1:1:1:3), a shaped gable over the 2-bay centre, larger shaped gables and pavilion roofs with apex lanterns and finials over the ends, and small pedimented gables with ball finials over the intermediated bays; and a cornice over the ground floor and double string-courses between the upper floors giving a strong horizontal emphasis. The 2-bay centre has coupled segmental-headed arches at ground floor, canted oriels tiered from 1st to 4th floor with terracotta mullion-and-transom windows, and 3 oculi in the gable. Otherwise, the ground floor has altered shop fronts, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of the intermediate bays have pairs of segmental-headed sashed windows and the 4th floor has tripartite sashes under semicircular blank arches, and between these windows each floor has a blank arch containing 2 very small windows; and the 3-bay ends have single windows to all floors including the attic gables, which have tall round-headed windows in the centre. Splayed corners with doorways at ground floor and oriels to the upper floors like those of the centre. The long east and west return sides each have pairs of semi-circular arched staircase openings at both ends of each upper floor, tripartite windows to the ground and 4th floors, paired windows to the other floors and pairs of oculi between all these windows; and the west side has a central entrance archway to the courtyard. Ridge chimneys. Rear similar. Courtyard surrounded by balconies with prominent curving supports to the railings. History: first municipal housing in Manchester.
Listing NGR: SJ8496698803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454827
- 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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