No. 36, PRINCESS STREET, No. 94, PORTLAND STREET, and No. 75, FAULKNER STREET
36, PRINCESS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247384
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- No. 36, PRINCESS STREET, No. 94, PORTLAND STREET, and No. 75, FAULKNER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 36, PRINCESS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247384
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- No. 36, PRINCESS STREET, No. 94, PORTLAND STREET, and No. 75, FAULKNER STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 36, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 75, FAULKNER STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- 94, 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:
- 36, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 75, FAULKNER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 94, 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 84127 97898
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/12/2017
SJ 8497 NW, 698-1/32/327
MANCHESTER,
PRINCESS STREET (south-west side),
No. 36
(Formerly listed as: No. 36 Manchester Chinese Chamber of Commerce)
GV
II
Includes: No. 75, FAULKNER STREET,
and No. 94, PORTLAND STREET.
Shipping warehouses, Manchester Chinese Chamber of
Commerce, Community Centre, etc when surveyed. Probably c.1870-80; altered.
Probably iron-framed, with cladding of sandstone ashlar (roof
not visible). Rectangular plan with curved corners, on island
site. Eclectic style with some Gothic details. Four storeys
over basement, ten windows plus the corners; symmetrical; band
dividing the upper and lower two floors, frieze with carved
ornament between pairs of brackets to cornice; central
round-headed doorway with rusticated jambs and moulded head
with carved cresting; sashed windows without glazing bars,
those at ground floor with shouldered heads and pilaster
jambs, those at first floor with stilted heads and set-in shafts
which have knobbly foliated caps, those at second floor with
shaped heads and those at third floor with set-in shafts. Return
sides have running arcaded fenestration, the windows at first
floor round-headed with foliated caps to the columns, those at
second floor segmental-headed, and those at third beyond the
third bay in a continuous band behind a screen of colonnettes.
Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings
on this side of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8412797898
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456826
- 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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