Clayton House, 59, Piccadilly and 61 Piccadilly
61, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246671
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clayton House, 59, Piccadilly and 61 Piccadilly
- Statutory Address:
- 61, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246671
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clayton House, 59, Piccadilly and 61 Piccadilly
- Statutory Address 1:
- 61, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AG
- Statutory Address 2:
- Clayton House, 59, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 1EY
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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:
- 61, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AG
- Statutory Address:
- Clayton House, 59, Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 1EY
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 84523 98277
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/02/2019
SJ8498SE
698-1/29/289
MANCHESTER
PICCADILLY (north side)
No.59 Clayton House, and 61
GV
II
Restaurant, warehousing and offices. Dated 1907 at top floor; by W and G Higginbottom. Portland stone facade with brown terracotta ground floor, slate roof. Long narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Jacobean Baroque style.
Six storeys and three bays, symmetrical; small cornice to ground floor, panels over outer fourth-floor windows lettered "CLAYTON" "HOUSE", prominent cornice over fourth floor with mutules and egg-and-dart enrichment, dentilled cornice over fifth floor broken in the centre by a Baroque-style broken-pedimented upstand lettered "AD MCMVII". The ground floor has doorways to left and right, both with pedimented surrounds and that to left with frieze lettered "CLAYTON HOUSE", and C20 shop window between; the upper floors have mullion-and-transom windows, mostly six lights, including a canted oriel tiered from second to fourth floors, those in the outer bays at second floor with triangular pediments, that at third floor of the oriel with a segmental pediment enclosing a lion-mask cartouche, and all these with ornamental wrought-iron balconies. Tall corniced chimneys at the gables.
The architects are Walter Higginbottom (1850-1924) and George Harry Higginbottom (1852 - ). These are not to be confused with William Herbert Higginbottom (1868–1929), who was born in Leeds but moved to and practised in Arnold, Nottingham.
Forms group with No.47, No.49, Nos 51 and 53, and Nos 55 and 57 to left (q.v.), and with gabled return of Nos 1 to 11 Newton Street to right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8452398277
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455659
- 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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