TELEPHONE BUILDINGS

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:: TELEPHONE BUILDINGS, 5, NEW YORK STREET, M1 4JB

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 458643
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.