106 AND 108, PORTLAND STREET, 32, DICKINSON STREET
106 AND 108, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247060
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 106 AND 108, PORTLAND STREET, 32, DICKINSON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 106 AND 108, PORTLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247060
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 106 AND 108, PORTLAND STREET, 32, DICKINSON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 106 AND 108, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 32, DICKINSON 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:
- 106 AND 108, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32, DICKINSON 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 84056 97818
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/309 (North West side) 28/02/89 Nos.106 AND 108
GV II
Includes: No.32 DICKINSON STREET. Commercial building, now offices. c.1860-80. Sandstone ashlar ground floor, red brick with sandstone dressings above (roof not visible). Irregular parallelogram on corner site, with chamfered corner. Four storeys over cellar, 5 bays to both facades, plus the corner; with plinth, channelled rusticated piers to ground floor, brick pilasters to the upper floors with bands at 1st floor and cornices at 2nd floor, and bracketed eaves cornice steped out slightly over the pilasters. Square-headed corner doorway under balustraded 1st-floor balcony, another square-headed doorway at the end, and large rectangular windows to the other bays with altered glazing; coupled window to the upper floors, those at 1st floor with stilted segmental heads and stone mullions, those at 2nd floor with shaped heads and stone mullions, and those at 3rd floor round-headed, and all these windows sashed without glazing bars. Rear and interior not inspected. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ8405697818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456056
- 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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