Transact House
TRANSACT HOUSE, 2, WATERLOO STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247386
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Transact House
- Statutory Address:
- TRANSACT HOUSE, 2, WATERLOO STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247386
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Transact House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRANSACT HOUSE, 2, WATERLOO STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TRANSACT HOUSE, 48 AND 50, 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:
- TRANSACT HOUSE, 2, WATERLOO STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TRANSACT HOUSE, 48 AND 50, 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 84192 97809
Details
SJ 8497 NW, 698-1/32/329
MANCHESTER, PRINCESS STREET (South West side),
Nos. 48 AND 50 Transact House
GV
II
Includes: No. 2 Transact House WATERLOO STREET.
Shipping warehouse and packing warehouse, now offices.
c.1880-90. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof.
Trapeziform plan on island site. Eclectic style. Four storeys
with basement and attic, a 9-window facade including curved
corners; with stone plinth, brick pilasters, moulded cornice
to ground floor, moulded main cornice with brick parapet, and
pedimented attic dormers over centres and corners. Chamfered
corners to ground floor with round-headed doorway and windows
in pilastered surround with keystone; above this, curved
oriels to full height, with transomed 10-light windows to all
floors; at left centre and right centre of ground floor, a
window of two round-headed lights with pilastered surround,
above this a canted 2-storey oriel with transomed 8-light
windows, and a cross-window to the third floor; mullioned and
transomed windows of six lights and cross-windows in the other
bays; cross-windows in dormers, single-light windows in corner
dormers. Five-bay return side in simpler style, with brick
pilasters, central attic gable. Interior not inspected. Forms
part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on
this side of Princess Street. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ8419297809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456828
- 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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