34, PRINCESS STREET
34, PRINCESS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247383
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 34, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 34, PRINCESS STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247383
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 34, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34, 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:
- 34, 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 84103 97922
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/326 (South West side) No.34
GV II
Shipping and packing warehouses, now shops and offices. c.1870-80, altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of red brick, sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site, with chamfered corners. Eclectic style with Gothic features. Five storeys over basement, 5 bays plus the corners, symmetrical; with punch-dressed plinth, ashlar ground floor with cornice, bands between floors, 2nd and 4th bays framed by semi-octagonal brick pilasters which terminate in stone pinnacles to steeply-pitched gables, tall clustered chimneys rising from inner corners of gables, and steeply-pitched roof. Chamfered piers to ground floor, 2-centred arched doorway with deeply moulded enrichment and carved crocketed gablet; sloped basement windows now painted white, square windows to ground floor, sashed windows without glazing bars to all upper floors, all with stone surrounds, those in the 3 centre bays coupled, and those at 3rd floor 2-centred arched; blank arches in the gables, with multifoil enrichment. Left return side (to Faulkner Street) similar, right-hand return simpler. Forms part of uniterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8410397922
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456825
- 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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