THE RITZ DANCE HALL

THE RITZ DANCE HALL, WHITWORTH STREET WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254888
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: THE RITZ DANCE HALL
Statutory Address:: THE RITZ DANCE HALL, WHITWORTH STREET WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254888
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: THE RITZ DANCE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: THE RITZ DANCE HALL, WHITWORTH STREET WEST

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: THE RITZ DANCE HALL, WHITWORTH STREET WEST

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 83969 97550

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8397 WHITWORTH STREET WEST 698-1/31/442 (North side) The Ritz Dance Hall

II

Dance hall. 1927, altered. Brick with white glazed terracotta facade, roof not visible. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Free C20 classical style. Two storeys, 1:7:1 bays, symmetrical; with plinth, channelled rustication to ground floor, horizontal canopy over ground floor suspended on tie-rods (and now with C20 fascia), pilastered upper floor, cornice and stepped parapet. The ground floor has a wide central entrance with a range of C20 doors, and 3 small windows to the outer bays (all either blocked or blind) with keystones and voussoirs; the upper floor has a pilastraded 7-bay panel with moulded surround including roundels, vertical-rectangular windows with moulded cornices in the 5 central bays with moulded ornament above them, and blind windows in the 1st and 7th; the end bays have paired windows in sunk panels, with similar cornices. Interior: original features such as balcony with Tuscan columns, pilastered walls, revolving stage (no longer functional) flanked by staircases (altered). History: venue of most of the well-known dance-bands of the 1930s and 40s. Included as now rare example of its type and date, representing earlier C20 popular culture.

Listing NGR: SJ8396997550

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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.