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NATIONAL BUILDINGS, 14, ST MARYS PARSONAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254470
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- National Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL BUILDINGS, 14, ST MARYS PARSONAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254470
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- National Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL BUILDINGS, 14, ST MARYS PARSONAGE
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:
- NATIONAL BUILDINGS, 14, ST MARYS PARSONAGE
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 83566 98477
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE ST MARY'S PARSONAGE 698-1/27/407 (West side) No.14 National Buildings
GV II
Office block. 1905-9, by Harry S. Fairhurst, for National Boiler and Generator Insurance Company. Iron or steel frame, with cladding of buff and white terracotta and some red brick. Large quadrilateral plan. Eclectic style. Five storeys with basement and 2 attic storeys, 9 bays, symmetrical; with rusticated terracotta and mutuled cornice to the first 2 floors, pilasters to the next 3 floors of the 7-bay main range (panelled and of brick at 2nd and 3rd floors, terracotta with coved niches at 4th floor), with a mutuled cornice; and banded terracotta to the outer bays which are treated as towers and finished with Baroque cupolas; set-back attic storeys between the turrets. The ground floor has large round-headed windows with cavetto surrounds and triple keystones, a similar but larger waggon entry to the right, and a central doorway with banded pilastered surround carried up to a semi-circular pediment enclosing a circular window at 1st floor, with moulded enrichments. The 1st floor has segmental-headed 3-light windows with enriched keyblocks; the upper floors have (inter alia) 3-storey canted oriels to the outer bays, 3-light windows to the 2nd and 3rd floors and a plaque in the centre lettered "NATIONAL BUILDINGS", 2-light windows to the 4th floor with Ionic colonnettes, Diocletian windows to the first attic storey, with triple keystones, and 3-light windows to the 2nd attic (forming almost continuous glazing). Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with Arkwright House, Parsonage Gardens (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8356698477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457310
- 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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