49 Piccadilly

49, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246670
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: 49 Piccadilly
Statutory Address:: 49, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246670
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: 49 Piccadilly
Statutory Address 1:: 49, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AP

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 49, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AP

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 84492 98293

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 08/04/2020

SJ 8498 SW 698-1/28/286

MANCHESTER, PICCADILLY (north side), No. 49

GV II Clothiers' warehouse, now offices with public house at ground floor. 1846 to 1847. For JP and E Westhead, rebuilt after a fire of 1850, with mansard roof added between 1886 and 1917. Occupied in 1917 by Chorlton Brothers, clothiers.

Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Deep rectangular plan. Simplified palazzo style. Five storeys and attic, a seven window facade, symmetrical, with rusticated quoins, plain frieze, modillioned cornice, brick parapet with stone pilasters and chimneys, large attic dormer. Ground floor altered except for square-headed doorway to right with enriched surround; very regular fenestration to upper floors, all windows of equal height and with moulded architraves, those at first and second floor shouldered, the lower with aprons and pediments (that in the centre swan-necked) and the upper with cornices (except that in the centre which is pedimented), and those at third floor eared (that in the centre with a segmental open pediment); altered glazing to first floor, eight-pane casements to the upper floors. Full-width glazed dormer in slope of roof, with three-span hipped roof.

Rear and interior not inspected.

Forms group with No.47 to left (q.v.), and with Nos 51 and 53, 55 and 57, and 59 and 61 to right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8449298293

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 455657
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hartwell, C, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Manchester, (2001, reprinted 2002 with corrections), 190
Websites
Grace's Guide to British Industrial History, accessed 24/01/2020 from https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/J._P._Westhead_and_Co
Other
Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 23/03/1850 P7

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.