Former Rochdale Canal Warehouse

FORMER ROCHDALE CANAL WAREHOUSE, TARIFF STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1254689
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:
Former Rochdale Canal Warehouse
Statutory Address:
FORMER ROCHDALE CANAL WAREHOUSE, TARIFF STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1254689
Date first listed:
03-Oct-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Former Rochdale Canal Warehouse
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER ROCHDALE CANAL WAREHOUSE, TARIFF 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER ROCHDALE CANAL WAREHOUSE, TARIFF 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 84800 98336

Details

MANCHESTER 698-1/29/416 TARIFF STREET 03-OCT-74 (South side) FORMER ROCHDALE CANAL WAREHOUSE (Formerly listed as: UPPER STANLEY STREET ROCHDALE CANAL WAREHOUSE)

II*

Canal warehouse, now workshops and stores. Dated 1836 on south parapet; altered. Brown brick with some sandstone dressings roof not visible). Long rectangular plan on east-west axis. Six storeys, with 13-window south facade; coupled semi-circular shipping holes in 7th-9th bays, with raised keystones; small round-headed windows on all floors, but those at 1st floor over the shipping holes blocked and those to the right altered, and all at 2nd floor (except 3 over the shipping holes) replaced by horizontal-rectangular windows; parapet with flat coping, and rectangular upstand over shipping holes lettered "1836". 4-window gable walls have full-height round-headed multi-stage loading slots, similar windows (some altered), and copings with wide kneelers; rear has 3 similar loading slots, 2 of these still with semicircular canopies to crane gear, and similar windows.

Listing NGR: SJ8480098336

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
457770
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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