Langley Buildings
LANGLEY BUILDINGS, 46A, PRINCESS STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247385
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Langley Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- LANGLEY BUILDINGS, 46A, PRINCESS STREET
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-06-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/12423/09
- Rights:
- © Mr Brian Lomas. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247385
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Langley Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANGLEY BUILDINGS, 46A, 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:
- LANGLEY BUILDINGS, 46A, 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 84158 97815
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/328 (South West side) No.46A Langley Buildings
GV II
Textiles warehouse, now offices. c.1880-90, altered. Cast-iron frame with sandstone ashlar facade and red brick side (roof not visible). Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street, with chamfered corner. Eclectic style with some Jacobean detailing. Five storeys over basement, a 3-window facade plus the left corner, with cornice to ground floor, sill-bands to all floors, cornice to top floor with carved upstand at corner. The ground floor has a doorway to the right with 2-light overlight in Jacobean style and cornice over this lettered "LANGLEY BUILDINGS", coupled windows in the centre, a former window to the left altered as a doorway, and in the splayed corner a square-headed doorway with moulded surround and panelled door. Above the door is the moulded corbel to a right-angled 2-storey oriel which has a shaped parapet, above this a canted 3-light window which has a parapet with strap-work panels and urn finials, and at top floor a 2-light window and parapet inscribed "LANGLEY BUILDINGS". Otherwise, the main facade is symmetrical, with a recessed centre bay almost filled by a rectangular oriel with pilasters tiered through 3 floors, and finished with a parapet like the other, and flanked by exceptionally narrow sashed windows in the re-entrants. All windows sashed without glazing bars. Ten-bay return wall of brick, with semi-octagonal pilasters finished as short pinnacles, and coupled sashed windows. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ8415897815
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456827
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 26-Jun-2026 at 12:34:00.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.