Telephone Buildings
TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, 5, NEW YORK STREET, M1 4JB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255051
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Telephone Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, 5, NEW YORK STREET, M1 4JB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255051
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Telephone Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, 5, NEW YORK STREET, M1 4JB
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:
- TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, 5, NEW YORK STREET, M1 4JB
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 84240 98124
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/05/2017
SJ 8498 SW,
698-1/28/446
MANCHESTER,
New York Street (south side),
No. 5, Telephone Buildings
(Formerly Listed as: YORK STREET (South side), No.26 Telephone Buildings)
20/06/88
II
Former telephone exchange. 1909, by L. Stokes and Beaumont. Red
brick; cream faience dressings and banding; blue brick bands
to quoins; granite basement; leaded roof. Rectangular plan.
Three storeys with basement and attic, five bays to New York Street;
central segmental-headed entrance with paired wooden doors;
square-headed windows, paired in the outer bays and triple in
the other bays, and a canted oriel in the centre bay rising
through 1st and 2nd floors, all these windows with flush
faience mullions; diamond-pattern panels below 1st-floor
windows. Faience console cornice above 2nd floor;
square-headed windows to attic, with moulded surrounds, and
Diocletian window in centre. Six chimneys rising between the
bays and linked in pairs at roof level. Eaves gutter and
subsidiary cornice. Left and right-hand return sides similar.
Listing NGR: SJ8424098124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458643
- 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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