THE SHENA SIMON SIXTH-FORM COLLEGE

THE SHENA SIMON 6TH FORM COLLEGE, WHITWORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270607
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: THE SHENA SIMON SIXTH-FORM COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: THE SHENA SIMON 6TH FORM COLLEGE, WHITWORTH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270607
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Aug-1994
List Entry Name:: THE SHENA SIMON SIXTH-FORM COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE SHENA SIMON 6TH FORM COLLEGE, WHITWORTH STREET

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 SHENA SIMON 6TH FORM COLLEGE, WHITWORTH 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 84455 97829

Details

SJ 8497 NW, 698-1/32/864

MANCHESTER, WHITWORTH STREET (North side), The Shena Simon Sixth-Form College

(Formerly listed as: (WHITWORTH STREET (North side) The Sheena Simon 6th Form College)

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School, now sixth-form college. 1897-1901, extended c1911. Red brick with terracotta dressings and Welsh slate roof with brick wall stacks. French Renaissance style. Large rectangular block extending N along street with further block projecting forward on right to the street corner. Mainly four storeys and basement. 5-window range on main block with 3-window range on projection, mullion and transom windows with terracotta details. Facade enriched with pilasters, string courses, cornice and parapet, and the central window projects and has a curved pediment. On the roof a projecting feature has square balustrade and round lantern. On the street corner is a curved and polygonal tower feature which is surmounted by an open octagonal drum with tall roof and open lantern. The front to street is a 24-window range with sections projecting, the elements emphasised by pediments, gables, wall stacks and pavilion roof with ornamental cresting. Similar facade to rear.

Listing NGR: SJ8445597829

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Legacy System number:: 458160
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.