Lionesse House
LIONESSE HOUSE, 54 AND 56, PRINCESS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247387
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Lionesse House
- Statutory Address:
- LIONESSE HOUSE, 54 AND 56, PRINCESS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247387
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Lionesse House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIONESSE HOUSE, 54 AND 56, 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:
- LIONESSE HOUSE, 54 AND 56, 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 84238 97742
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/331 (South West side) Nos.54 AND 56 Lionesse House
GV II
Shipping warehouses, now bank, offices, etc. c.1880-90. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Almost rectangular plan on island site parallel to street, with canted corner to No.54. Four storeys with basements and attics, 8 bays with 2 windows per bay, plus the canted corner which has one window in each face; with punch-dressed stone plinth, cornice over ground floor, string-courses and sill-bands to all upper floors, moulded cornice and parapet (No.54 brick, and No.56 stone with short brick chimneys). Arcaded ground floor of round-headed arches with keystones and linked hoodmoulds, round-headed doorway to 4th bay with pilastered surround including keystone, carved spandrels and cornice on brackets, inserted doorway to 6th bay, windows with altered glazing in the other bays. Upper floors have shallow rectangular 2-storey oriels in alternate bays, with pilasters and balustraded parapets, and square-headed windows throughout, all with stone lintels and all sashed windows without glazing bars. Mansard roof with low flat-roofed dormers, slated pyramidal turret-roof to right-hand corner. Right-hand return side simpler, but with 2 pedimented attic dormers. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8423897742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456830
- 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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