LANCASTER HOUSE

LANCASTER HOUSE, 67-71, WHITWORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254887
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: LANCASTER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LANCASTER HOUSE, 67-71, WHITWORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1254887
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: LANCASTER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LANCASTER HOUSE, 67-71, WHITWORTH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: LANCASTER HOUSE, 80, PRINCESS 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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Location

Statutory Address:: LANCASTER HOUSE, 67-71, WHITWORTH STREET
Statutory Address:: LANCASTER HOUSE, 80, PRINCESS 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 84270 97647

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW WHITWORTH STREET 698-1/32/440 (South side) 03/10/74 Nos.67 TO 71 (Odd) Lancaster House

GV II*

Includes: No.80 Lancaster House PRINCESS STREET. Shipping and packing warehouses, No.71 converted as apartments and No.67 (including No.80 Princess Street) converted as offices. Dated 1906, and built between 1905 and 1912; by Harry S.Fairhurst. Steel-framed, with cladding of brown and buff terracotta and some red brick; slate roofs. Long rectangular plan in 2 parts, on island site. Edwardian Baroque style. The left-hand portion, forming the corner block to Princess Street, is 7 storeys with basement and attic, 6 bays plus a corner turret to the left, the ground and 1st floors forming a rustic of banded brown terracotta with a dentilled cornice on consoles, banded end pilasters to the upper floors (continued as chimneys above the parapet), frieze over 2nd floor, 5-bay giant arcade of round-headed arches from 3rd to 6th floor with swags and enriched keystones, dentilled main cornice, and attic storey treated as a parapet. 3-sided corner turret (2:1:2 windows) with segmental open pediment over 1st floor, pedimented Gibbs surrounds to 4th-floor windows, and very elaborate slender octagonal 4-stage Baroque spire. Doorway in chamfered corner to Princess Street, round-headed arched entrance at right-hand end, keyed heads to windows at ground and 1st floors (those at 1st floor round-headed). Narrow facade to Princess Street in similar style; with centre of 4 very narrow bays, the upper floors giant-arcaded like those to Whitworth Street, and colonnaded attic with Diocletian window and elaborate parapet; grey stone entrance at ground floor with square-headed doorway flanked by windows, semi-circular overlight flanked by projected ship-prow motifs, and dentilled cornice; and 5-sided corner with features matching the other corner but finished with a balustraded parapet. Rear: a strictly functional glazed grid of small-paned windows. The right-hand portion (No.71) is 7 storeys and 1:3:1:3 bays, the ground and 1st floors of buff terracotta with a cornice and the upper floors of red brick with buff terracotta dressings, symmetrical except for the 1st bay (which carries up 1 floor higher, like a sprinkler tower). The 1-bay centre has a round-headed doorway with wrought-iron Art Nouveau gates, a dentilled band arched over it, a 2-light overlight at 1st-floor level flanked by reliefs of seated allegorical female figures supporting an open pediment containing a cartouche with fronds, and a panel above this with raised lettering "LANCASTER HOUSE"; pairs of small windows to the next 4 floors, and a round-headed arch at 6th floor containing a lunette. The 3 bays on each side of the centre have banded piers and square-headed windows with triple keystones at ground floor, coupled windows at 1st floor; banded brick giant pilasters to the next 3 floors with terracotta friezes and modillioned cornices, windows with linked architraves at 2nd and 3rd floors (those at 2nd floor segmental-headed), and large oculi at 4th floor with enriched terracotta surrounds; and coupled pilasters to the top 2 floors with open segmental pediments over the centre containing raised lettering "ANNO. DOM." and MDCCCCVI" (respectively), windows with moulded architraves at 5th floor and coupled windows above. Hipped roof with 2 tall chimneys. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8427097647

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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.