44-50, PORTLAND STREET
44-50, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247041
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 44-50, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 44-50, PORTLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247041
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 44-50, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 44-50, 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:
- 44-50, 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 84236 97995
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/301 (North West side) Nos.44 TO 50 (Even)
GV II
Various home trade warehouses, now cafe, betting shop and offices. Probably c.1850-60; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Simplified palazzo style. Five storeys over basement, a symmetrical 6-window facade; vermiculated plinth, pilastered ground floor with cornice, sill-bands to all upper floors, moulded cornice with blocking course. Round-headed doorways to left and right, with set-in shafts, enriched lintels, moulded heads with keystones, divided panelled doors, and cornices on consoles, and windows over altered basement openings in the intermediate bays; segmental-headed windows at 1st and 3rd floors, those at 1st floor above the doors with moulded stone architraves and cornices and the others with set-in stone surrounds and linked lintels, and those at 3rd floor with stone surrounds; square-headed windows at 2nd and 4th floors, those at 2nd floor with set-in stone surrounds and those at 4th floor with set-in stone shoulders, all with linked lintels: all these windows sashed without glazing bars. Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with Nos 52 and 54 to left (q.v.), and with No.36 Charlotte Street (Fraser House) to right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8423697995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456048
- 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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