29, SWAN STREET

29, SWAN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270667
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:
29, SWAN STREET
Statutory Address:
29, SWAN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1270667
Date first listed:
15-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:
29, SWAN STREET
Statutory Address 1:
29, SWAN STREET

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
29, SWAN 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 84545 98749

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 SWAN STREET 698-1/17/856 (South West side) 15/03/89 No.29

II

Shop with former offices (now storage) above. c1865; architect not known. Red brick banding and sandstone dressings, slate roof hipped over the main range. Ruskian Gothic style. Three storeys, 1:3 windows, vigorously asymmetrical, the 1st bay gabled and slightly set back: with a sawtooth still-band to the 1st floor, and an oversailing parapet to the main range with carved foliated sandstone bands. The ground floor has a shop front with panelled pilasters at either end, a panelled door to the left with a square overlight, and plate-glass shop windows with slender glazing posts. At 1st and 2nd floors the main range has arcaded windows with polychrome heads, those at 1st floor with shouldered openings, carved crocketed caps and 2-centered arched relieving arches, and those at 2nd floor with segmental-pointed heads. The set-back bay to the left has a 1st-floor oriel, and above this a segmental-pointed window in a steeply-pitched gablet which breaks through a tall parapet and has a monagram "M&K" in the apex. Steeply-pitched roofs, with tall side chimney to the left and a cut-down chimney at the junction of the ranges.

Listing NGR: SJ8454598749

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
457764
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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