Asia House
ASIA HOUSE, 82, PRINCESS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247432
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Asia House
- Statutory Address:
- ASIA HOUSE, 82, PRINCESS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247432
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Asia House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASIA HOUSE, 82, 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:
- ASIA HOUSE, 82, 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 84288 97624
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/336 (South West side) 03/10/74 No.82 Asia House
GV II*
Packing and shipping warehouses, now offices. c.1900-10, by Harry S.Fairhurst. Iron frame with cladding of brown sandstone ashlar and buff brick on polished granite plinth (roof concealed). Irregular trapeziform plan on island site. Free Baroque style. Six storeys with basement and attic, 7 bays plus chamfered corners, a boldly ornate design with channelled rusticated brown masonry to the first 3 storeys, a giant Ionic pilastrade to the 2 top floors rising from panelled pedestals at 3rd floor (in the same material against a brick background), curved and banded corners at this level (rising from large cartouches), a plain frieze and very prominent modillioned cornice, and a pilastered attic storey which is brick in the lower half and stone in the upper, the parapet raised at the ends. The ground floor has round-headed openings with run-out voussoirs, including a central doorway with cavetto surround, swagged voluted keystone and elaborate wrought-iron overlight, and windows with large triple keystones; the 1st and 2nd floor windows, including 2-storey canted oriels to the 2nd and 3rd and the 5th and 6th bays, all have moulded architraves, those at 1st floor with triple keystones and open pediments, those at 2nd floor with cornices surmounted by curved wrought-iron railings; the windows in the centre and end bays at 4th floor have open-pedimented architraves with balustraded balconies, the other windows of the top 3 floors have moulded architraves with triple keystones. Attic windows mostly corniced, those at the ends with pediments enclosing cartouches, with blind oculi above. Interior: unusually elaborate decoration, including tiled porch and corridor with Ionic pilasters and Venetian windows of green glazed terracotta; Art Nouveau stained glass, staircase tiling, and door furnishings: probably the best example of its kind in any Manchester warehouse. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8428897624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456835
- 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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