Public Laundry
PUBLIC LAUNDRY, RHODES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247475
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Public Laundry
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LAUNDRY, RHODES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247475
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Public Laundry
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUBLIC LAUNDRY, RHODES 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:
- PUBLIC LAUNDRY, RHODES 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:
- SJ8629599762
Details
MANCHESTER
SD89NE
698-1/5/749
RHODES STREET, Miles Platting
(North East side)
Public laundry
II
Public laundry. c.1900-1910. Red brick and buff terracotta,
with slate and glazed roof. Rectangular plan. Art Nouveau
style. The long 2-storey 5-bay facade is almost symmetrical,
the centre and ends breaking forwards, and has a terracotta
plinth, red brick ground floor with terracotta quoins and
cornice, and terracotta tiled facing to the upper floor. The
centre is a 3-bay composition with a Diocletian window at
ground floor flanked by segmental-headed doorways with
terracotta surrounds including keystones and segmental
cornices, and a keyed oculus at 1st floor under a gabled
parapet, flanked by pairs of small segmental-headed windows
with keystones and cornices like the doorways. The link to the
left has 4 windows at ground floor, all square-headed with
segmental-headed terracotta architraves including keystones
and segmental cornices; the wide end bay to the left of this
has 2 pairs of similar windows at ground floor and a lunette
at 1st floor with archband and keystone. The link and end bay
to the right are similar except that each has an additional
opening in the centre: a narrow window in the link (now mostly
replaced by a C20 doorway with roller shutter), and a doorway
in the end bay (this and the flanking windows now furnished
with similar shutters). Continuous glazed skylight to roof.
Interior: original Art Nouveau tiling in duck-egg blue with
bands and friezes of blue and green swags and festoons;
original stained glass in doors, etc.
Listing NGR: SJ8629599762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456968
- 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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