NATIONAL HOUSE

36-46, CROSS STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247611
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: 36-46, CROSS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247611
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: NATIONAL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: 36-46, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address 2:: NATIONAL HOUSE, 34 AND 36, ST ANN STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 36-46, CROSS STREET
Statutory Address:: NATIONAL HOUSE, 34 AND 36, ST ANN 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 83843 98338

Details

MANCHESTER,

SJ8398SE, ST ANN STREET, 698-1/27/383, (South side), Nos. 34 AND 36, National House

03/10/74

GV

II

Includes: Nos.36 TO 46 CROSS STREET. Conservative club, now shops at ground floor. 1875, by Horton and Bridgeford; altered. Sandstone ashlar (roof concealed). Baroque style. Three storeys, three bays, symmetrical, plus curved left corner to Cross Street; with much enrichment, including banded corner pilasters, an elaborate pedimented centre with superimposed orders through all floors, coved eaves with coupled brackets to a prominent cornice, and a balustraded parapet. The centre has coupled pilasters to all floors (banded Tuscan at ground floor, Ionic at first floor, Corinthian at second floor), a segmental-headed doorway at ground floor with carved surround, double doors with pedimented panels, and an elaborate doorcase with banded columns, carved tympanum and segmental open pediment; Venetian windows at 1st and 2nd floors, the centre light framed by Ionic columns at 1st floor and Corinthian pilasters at 2nd floor, those at 1st floor supporting a curved frieze and pierced balcony; and carving in the pediment with shields, swags and putti. The outer bays have segmental-headed windows at 1st and 2nd floors in similarly elaborate architraves, those at 1st floor with open pediments and those at 2nd floor with cornices, all richly carved and with pierced aprons. Cylindrical corner oriel with round-headed windows and elaborate enrichment. Seven bay facade to Cross Street with banded piers at ground floor, and regular fenestration to the upper floors, the windows matching those at the front but with 1st-floor pediments alternately segmental. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8384798341

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Legacy System number:: 457201
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.