60 AND 62, SPRING GARDENS, 58, FOUNTAIN STREET
58, FOUNTAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270662
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 60 AND 62, SPRING GARDENS, 58, FOUNTAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 58, FOUNTAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270662
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 60 AND 62, SPRING GARDENS, 58, FOUNTAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 58, FOUNTAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 60 AND 62, SPRING GARDENS
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:
- 58, FOUNTAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 60 AND 62, SPRING GARDENS
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 84040 98185
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW SPRING GARDENS 698-1/28/380 (West side) Nos.60 AND 62 Minster Insurance
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.60 AND 62 Gartside's SPRING GARDENS. Includes: No.58 FOUNTAIN STREET. Manufacturers' warehouse, subsequently insurance office. 1882, by Alfred Waterhouse, for Gartside & Co; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with narrow chamfered corners. Renaissance style. Four storeys and attic, 7 bays plus the corners; rusticated ground floor with cornice, string-courses and sill-bands to the upper floors, modillioned main cornice, panelled parapet interrupted by pedimented attic dormers, and octagonal corner turret with domed caps and slender apex lanterns. The ground floor is an arcade of round-headed arches with stepped voussoirs, with doorways in the 3 central arches and C20 plate-glass glazing in the others, and a similar doorway in the chamfered corner; the upper floors have 2-light mullioned windows, with carved panels between those at 1st and 2nd floors and raised bracketed sills to those at 3rd floor, and single-light windows to the corners (including the 1st stage of the turrets). The attic dormers have single-light windows in moulded architraves which have scrolled consoles at the sides and pedimented tops on consoles, and the turrets have very small 2-light mullioned windows to the upper stage. Left return (to Fountain Street) in matching style, plus a loading bay doorway at the further end. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8404098185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457649
- 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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