FORMER PICKLES BUILDING

FORMER PICKLES BUILDING, 101, PORTLAND STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246955
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER PICKLES BUILDING
Statutory Address:: FORMER PICKLES BUILDING, 101, PORTLAND STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246955
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER PICKLES BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER PICKLES BUILDING, 101, PORTLAND STREET

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:: FORMER PICKLES BUILDING, 101, 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 84188 97889

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/306 (South East side) 03/10/74 No.101 Former Pickles Building

GV II

Shipping warehouse, now offices. 1870, by Clegg and Knowles. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on corner site, with integral loading bay to rear. Eclectic style with some Gothic features. Five storeys with basement and added attic, 3 bays (3, 4 and 3-light windows) plus curved corners; with chamfered plinth, shallow Lombard frieze over ground floor, moulded sill-bands to 3rd and 4th floors, carved impost bands to all floors except the 1st, bracketed cornice, all carried round (C20 mansard roof). Stilted segmental-headed doorway at each corner, with pilastered surround, set-in shafts with foliated caps, mask key-block, carved spandrels, cornice on short shafts with carved heads, and tall divided doors with shaped panels. Basement has shouldered windows with iron grilles; upper floors have recessed sashed windows in reveals which have shafts with foliated caps, those at ground floor with stilted arched heads and hoodmoulds, those at 1st floor square-headed, those at 2nd and 3rd floors round-headed with 2-centred arched hoodmoulds, and those at 4th floor with shouldered heads; quatrefoil panels between 1st and 2nd floor windows. Two-light windows to the corners, differing slightly. Right-hand return (to Princess Street), 6 bays with 2-light windows in matching style, and segmental-headed loading bay entrance to right.

Listing NGR: SJ8418897889

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Legacy System number:: 456053
Legacy System:: LBS

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