Nos. 1-7 PRINCESS STREET, Nos. 59 and 61, CROSS STREET
1-7, PRINCESS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246960
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 1-7 PRINCESS STREET, Nos. 59 and 61, CROSS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7, PRINCESS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246960
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 1-7 PRINCESS STREET, Nos. 59 and 61, CROSS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-7, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 59 AND 61, CROSS 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:
- 1-7, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 59 AND 61, CROSS 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 83847 98200
Details
MANCHESTER,
SJ8398SE, PRINCESS STREET,
698-1/27/320, (North East side),
Nos.1 TO 7 (Odd)
03/10/74
GV
II
Includes: Nos.59 AND 61 CROSS STREET.
Shops and offices. 1877, by Pennington and Bridgen; altered.
Red brick with sandstone dressings, red tiled roof. Curved
trapeziform plan on end-of-block site. Gothic style. Four
storeys and attic, eight windows including corner and Cross Street
side; stone ground floor and frieze with Tudor-flower and
grotesque ornament; slender chamfered shafts of brick and
stone rising to a large gable in each main facade and two small
gables over the corner, all with tourelles and finials and
linked by open-work parapets, stone spirelet to end of Cross
Street facade, steeply-pitched roof with small hipped dormers
and large clustered chimneys. Ground floor of each facade has
two wide elliptical-arched windows with moulded heads, a
2-centred arched doorway to the left of the Princess Street
facade, with carved enrichment and traceried overlight (C20
shopfronts inserted in corner); 1st and 2nd floors have tiered
mullion-and transom windows to the gabled bays, those in the
main facades canted and those at the corner bowed, all with
terracotta traceried panels between the floors and elaborately
traceried open-work parapets, and various other transomed
windows; 3rd floor has mostly 2-light windows with Gothic
enrichment, including 2 in the Princess Street facade with
carved stone gablets; gables have 2-centred arched windows
with tracery.
Listing NGR: SJ8384798200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456068
- 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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