GATEHOUSE OF HMP MANCHESTER

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:: GATEHOUSE OF HMP MANCHESTER, SOUTHALL STREET

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Official list entry

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 457638
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.