116 AND 118, PORTLAND STREET
116 AND 118, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247062
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 116 AND 118, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 116 AND 118, PORTLAND STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12423/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247062
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 116 AND 118, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 116 AND 118, 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:
- 116 AND 118, 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 84028 97786
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/313 (North West side) 28/02/89 Nos.116 AND 118
GV II
Warehouses (probably textiles or clothing), now shops, offices, etc. c.1860-80; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan. Italian Renaissance style. Three storeys with basement and attic, 6 bays, symmetrical; with plinth, cornice to ground floor, sill-band to 2nd floor, prominent modillioned cornice, 2 small open-pedimented dormers and central chimney stack. Arcaded ground floor with round-headed arches, banded brick piers and moulded stone imposts: tall doorways to the outer bays with keystones and segmental pediments on brackets, and windows with keystones and original glazing in 2 round-headed lights (some covered or altered); segmental-headed windows at 1st floor, each in a raised brick architrave with stone cornice; round-headed windows at 2nd floor, recessed between pairs of short brick pilasters; small round-headed dormer windows. Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with Nos 106 and 108-114 to right (q.v.) and Nos 120 to 126 to left (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8402897786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456060
- 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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