Newton Buildings
NEWTON BUILDINGS, 50, NEWTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246388
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Newton Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- NEWTON BUILDINGS, 50, NEWTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246388
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Newton Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWTON BUILDINGS, 50, 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:
- NEWTON BUILDINGS, 50, 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 84661 98366
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET 698-1/29/253 (South East side) 20/06/88 No.50 Newton Buildings
GV II
Hat manufacturers' premises. c.1900, altered. Iron frame and concrete floors, with cladding of ashlar, and red brick with buff terracotta dressings, slate roof. Trapezoidal plan on end-of-block site parallel to Hilton Street. Free baroque style. Basement and 4 storeys plus full attic storey and mansard attic; distinguished by 3-storey giant arcades above ground floor, 2 bays to Newton Street, 5 bays to Hilton Street and 3 bays to Port Street; with cornices over ground and 3rd floors. The Newton street facade has a round-headed doorway to the right, with an architrave including 2 columns and a large segmental pediment; the ground floor of all 3 sides has wide rectangular windows with keyed lintels; the arcaded upper floors have wide round-headed arches with quoined surrounds and keystones, most filled by original glazed screens with wooden frames and metal glazing bars making panes of varied size, the windows of the 1st and 2nd floors including floating segmental pediments; but the 2nd and 4th bays to Hilton Street with 2-storey canted oriels enriched with swags etc. The attic storey has coupled windows except to Newton Street, which has a large segmental open-pedimented dormer with a round-headed window, the mansard to Hilton Street has dormers with segmental pediments. Interior said to have segmental barrel-vaulted construction.
Listing NGR: SJ8466198366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454813
- 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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