G MEX

G MEX, WINDMILL STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1270514
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1963
List Entry Name:: G MEX
Statutory Address:: G MEX, WINDMILL STREET

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Date:: 2002-05-12
Reference:: IOE01/06536/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1270514
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: G MEX
Statutory Address 1:: G MEX, WINDMILL 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:: G MEX, WINDMILL 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 83737 97786

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8397NE WINDMILL STREET 698-1/31/443 (South West side) 18/12/63 G-Mex (Formerly Listed as: WINDMILL STREET (South West side) Former Central Station)

GV II*

Railway station, now exhibition hall and car park. 1876-9, by Sir John Fowler, for Midland Railway Company; altered. Iron and glass on brick undercroft, with brick side walls. Rectangular plan. Single segmental-vaulted vessel of 15 bays with 210-foot span, built on extensive undercrofts; pilastered 2-storey south side with 3 windows on each floor of each bay, those at ground floor round-headed and those above square-headed; segmental arched roof with ridged bands of glazing. C20 glazed canopy to entrance at north end. Vaulted undercroft with intersecting tunnel vaults. Intended entrance block at north end never built.

Listing NGR: SJ8373797786

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 458616
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.