Gatehouse of Hmp Manchester
GATEHOUSE OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254670
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse of Hmp Manchester
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254670
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse of Hmp Manchester
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL 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:
- GATEHOUSE OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL 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 83800 99527
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 December 2016.
SJ8399
698-1/14/576
03/10/74
MANCHESTER
SOUTHALL STREET, Cheetham
(North side)
Gatehouse of HMP Manchester
(Formerly Listed as: Gatehouse of Strangeways Gaol)
II
GV
Gatehouse of gaol. 1866-8, by Alfred Waterhouse. Red brick
with sandstone dressings and steeply-pitched slate roofs.
Irregular plan. French Gothic style. Three storeys and 3 bays
plus 2-storey 3-bay wing to left. The principal element,
consisting of a central entrance archway flanked by
semi-octagonal turrets, has battered sandstone rubble plinths
to the turrets, plain stone bands and a 1st floor
string-course, emphaticlly bracketed eaves, octagonal-conical
roofs to the turrets, and 2 tall chimneys on the central
ridge. The 2-storey centre has a large round-headed arch
moulded in 3 orders, with massive double doors and a plain
fanlight, and a round-headed niche at 1st floor containing the
Royal Arms, flanked by single-light windows; the 3-storey
turrets have single-light windows diminishing in the height,
with iron bar grilles to all floors of the right-hand turret
and ground floor of the left turret. Two storey wing to left,
in matching style, including bay window to left and gabled
porch to right.
Listing NGR: SJ8380099527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457638
- 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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