52 AND 54, PORTLAND STREET
52 AND 54, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246953
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 52 AND 54, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 52 AND 54, PORTLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246953
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 52 AND 54, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 52 AND 54, PORTLAND 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:
- 52 AND 54, PORTLAND 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 84226 97984
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/302 (North West side) Nos.52 AND 54
GV II
Textile warehouses, now restaurant etc. Probably c.1860-70; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan. Simplified palazzo style. Five storeys over basement, 3 wide bays; stone pilastered ground floor (see below), sill-bands to all upper floors, moulded cornice with blocking course. Ground floor in 3 differing portions: to the left, tall coupled round-headed doorways (that on the right altered as a window), with panelled spandrels and a cornice on elongated brackets which have incised decoration; in the centre, 3 narrow segmental-headed windows with pilastered surrounds and keystones similarly decorated, and a cornice; to the right, 2 narrow segmental-headed windows and a doorway with rusticated surrounds. Tripartite sashed windows to all upper floors, those at 1st floor with pilastered architraves and that in the centre with incised decoration and a segmental pediment over the centre light, those at 2nd floor with panelled aprons to the lights and cornices arched over the centre, and those above more simply treated: all these windows sashed without glazing bars. Rear and interior not inspected. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ8422697984
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456049
- 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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