Princess Buildings
72-76, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247380
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Princess Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- 72-76, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247380
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Princess Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 72-76, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PRINCESS BUILDINGS, 18,20,22A AND 24, 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:
- 72-76, GEORGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PRINCESS BUILDINGS, 18,20,22A AND 24, 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 84041 97954
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/323 (South West side) 03/10/74 Nos.18,20,22A AND 24 Princess Buildings
GV II
Includes: Nos.72, 74 AND 76 GEORGE STREET. Various textile warehouses and offices, now offices. c.1860-80. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Irregular rectangular plan. Eclectic style. Four storeys with basement and attic, a 12-window symmetrical facade divided by pilasters into bays of 1:1:3:1:1:3:1:1 windows, plus curved 2-window corners, with plinth, enriched cornice over ground floor, enriched still-bands to the upper floors, bracketed cornice enriched sill-bands to the upper floors, bracketed cornice, open-arcaded parapet with very tall slender chimneys treated as pinnacles between the bays, and mansard roof with flat-roofed dormers. The ground floor has a wide segmental-arched entrance in the centre, with pilastered surround including foliated imposts and volute keystone, and moulded round-headed doorways in the 2nd and 6th bays, with similar pilasters. All the windows are sashed without glazing bars and have moulded surrounds and mullions, those at 1st floor with shouldered heads, those at 2nd floor segmental-headed, and those at 4th floor with 2-centred arched heads and set-in shafts with carved capitals; and those in the corners with curved glazing and prominent cornices to 1st and 2nd floors. The left return side (with 3:2:3:3:2 windows) has coupled round-headed doorways to Nos 72 and 74 in the 2nd bay and a similar doorway to No. 76 in the 5th bay, segmental-headed windows to the 2nd floor and round-headed windows to the 3rd floor with colonettes of polished pink granite and sandstone caps. The right-hand return side is in similar but simpler style. Nos.72, 74 and 76 were added to the List 5/4/83.
Listing NGR: SJ8404197954
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456071
- 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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