Smithfield Market Hall
SMITHFIELD MARKET HALL, 39,43 AND 45, SWAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254687
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Smithfield Market Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SMITHFIELD MARKET HALL, 39,43 AND 45, SWAN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254687
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Smithfield Market Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMITHFIELD MARKET HALL, 39,43 AND 45, SWAN 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:
- SMITHFIELD MARKET HALL, 39,43 AND 45, SWAN 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 84512 98776
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/12/2012
SJ8498
698-1/17/414
08/10/73
MANCHESTER
SWAN STREET
(South West side)
Nos.39, 43, 45
Smithfield Market Hall
GV
II
Former wholesale market hall. Dated 1857 on
frieze at front, and "altered 1867" on north side. Coursed
sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate and glass roof,
internal iron frame. Rectangular plan. Classical style. Single
storey 5-bay symmetrical facade to Swan Street, the centre and
ends breaking forwards slightly and the centre pedimented;
with moulded plinth, punch-dressed quoins, lettered frieze,
dentilled cornice and parapet with panels and upstands. The
centre has a round-headed archway with ornamental cast-iron
fanlight grill, rock-faced voussoirs and a bulls-head
keyblock, framed by a tetrastyle pilaster portico with
Corinthianesque capitals incorporating rams' heads, and a
mutuled pediment with acroterion; the outer bays have large
Venetian-form openings with round-headed archways which have
similar voussoirs and monogrammed keystones; and the frieze of
these three portions has inscriptions: "SMITHFIELD / MARKET
HALL" (in the pediment of the centre), and "ERECTED BY THE"
"CORPORATION OF THE CITY" "ANNO DOMINI 1857" from left to
right respectively. The intermediate bays have altered
shuttered openings under horizontal panels with grills pierced
by circular openings. The north side, 1:3:1 bays, has large
round-headed arches with imposts, and a metal and glass canopy
attached at impost level. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8451298776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457765
- 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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