113-119, PORTLAND STREET

113-119, PORTLAND STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1246957
Date first listed:
28-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:
113-119, PORTLAND STREET
Statutory Address:
113-119, PORTLAND STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1246957
Date first listed:
28-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:
113-119, PORTLAND STREET
Statutory Address 1:
113-119, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
113-119, 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 84112 97813

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/312 (South East side) Nos.113 TO 119 (Odd)

GV II

Manufacturers' home trade warehouse and shipping warehouse, now offices etc. c.1860-70, altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Irregular plan on corner site, with loading at rear. Utilitarian design with some Italian Gothic features. Four storeys and basement, 16 windows (some coupled); stone basement with weathered plinth, sill-bands to all floors, simplified Lombard friezes over most windows except the top floor, elaborated Lombard frieze of brick to moulded stone cornice. Basement and ground floor altered except in the last 3 bays (and right-hand return side to Dickinson Street), which have elaborately decorated cast-iron railings to the basement openings and coupled sashed windows with stone mullions and heads; upper floors have single (a) and coupled (b) windows arranged a-b-a-a-b-a-a-b-b-b-a, those at 1st floor square-headed, those at 2nd floor segmental-headed, and those at 3rd floor stilted segmental with stepped heads and linked hoodmoulds. Right-hand return wall, 10 bays in matching style, with wide segmental-headed loading bay entrance in 6th bay. Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with No.103, Nos 105 and 107, and Nos 109 and 111 to left (q.v.), together comprising a complete block of former warehouses.

Listing NGR: SJ8411297813

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
456059
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.

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