49, SPRING GARDENS
49, SPRING GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270700
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 49, SPRING GARDENS
- Statutory Address:
- 49, SPRING GARDENS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270700
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 49, SPRING GARDENS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 49, 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:
- 49, 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 84059 98209
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW SPRING GARDENS 698-1/28/379 (North East side) 03/10/74 No.49 (Formerly Listed as: SPRING GARDENS (North East side) National Provincial Bank)
GV II
Commercial building, probably textiles warehouse; now offices. 1888-91, by Alfred Waterhouse. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site, with curved corners, and loading bay to rear. Eclectic style, with some Gothic features. Three storeys with basement and attic, 5 unequal bays plus the corners, symmetrical; with sill-bands and string-courses to all floors, Lombard frieze over 2nd floor, slender brackets to moulded cornice, and blind-arcaded parapet interrupted by gabled attic dormers. The centre bay has a large square-headed entrance with arched chamfered doorway and recessed double doors, and over this a bracketed stone balcony with ornamental iron railings. The windows of all floors (including the basement) are of 2, 3, 2, 3 and 2 lights, those to the basement square-headed and furnished with iron bar grilles, those of the 3 main floors with stilted shouldered heads and colonnettes which have knobbly foliated caps and square abaci, and all sashed without glazing bars; the curved corners have matching 3-light fenestration, with curved glazing; and the attic dormers have coped gables with kneelers, ball-finials on the apexes and the kneelers, and windows with altered glazing. Mansard roof with side-wall chimneys. Returned sides similar, the left with a segmental-headed loading bay entrance to the rear bay. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8405998209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457648
- 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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