26-30, PRINCESS STREET
26-30, PRINCESS STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246961
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 26-30, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26-30, PRINCESS STREET
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-06-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/12423/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Brian Lomas. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246961
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 26-30, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26-30, PRINCESS 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:
- 26-30, PRINCESS 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 84089 97938
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/324 (South West side) Nos.26 TO 30 (Even)
GV II
Offices and warehouses, now variously occupied. c.1870-80, altered. Sandstone ashlar ground floor, blood-red brick with sandstone dressings above, steeply-pitched hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site (now island), with chamfered corners, loading bay at rear. Eclectic style. Four storeys over basement, a 14-window facade, symmetrical, the windows grouped 1:2:3:3:2:1, plus 3-light corner oriels; with high chamfered plinth and plain frieze to ground floor, brick pilasters to the 2-window bays terminating in tall pilastered chimneys (treated as pinnacles), heavy bracketed cornice over 2nd floor, small cornice and brick parapet over 3rd floor. The 2-window bays have coupled round-headed doorways (the 4th altered as window) with much enrichment, including colonnettes with carved caps supporting large elaborate consoles to stilted open pediments which contain carved keystones and swags; the corners have square-headed doorways each with 2 semicircular overlights flanking the corbel of a cylindrical 2-storey oriel above. The windows are sashed without glazing bars, those of 2 and 3 lights with stone mullions (except at 3rd floor) and those of the 2-window bays with stone panels between the floors. Returned sides similar. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8408997938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456072
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 18-Jun-2026 at 14:59:19.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.