42 AND 44, SACKVILLE STREET
42 AND 44, SACKVILLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270791
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 42 AND 44, SACKVILLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 42 AND 44, SACKVILLE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-09-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/05791/25
- Rights:
- © Mr Neil Short. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270791
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 42 AND 44, SACKVILLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42 AND 44, SACKVILLE 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.
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:
- 42 AND 44, SACKVILLE 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 84371 97790
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW SACKVILLE STREET 698-1/32/367 (West side) 03/10/74 Nos.42 AND 44
GV II
Packing warehouses, now variously occupied. Probably c.1860-80. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan on end-of-block site parallel to south side of Rochdale Canal. Simple late-Georgian style. Four storeys over basement, 10 bays, symmetrical, with channelled plinth, pilastered ground floor with stone frieze and cornice, upper floors treated as giant arcade of round-headed arches with brick pilasters and linked stone imposts, prominent wooden cornice on coupled brackets, and parapet with short square chimneys (irregularly arranged). The centre has coupled round-headed doorways with recessed divided panelled doors in an elaborate stone surround including polished pink granite shafts with composite stone caps, mask keystones, bracketed and dentilled cornice with small lion-mask antefixae. The ground, 1st and 2nd floors have segmental-headed sashed windows, those at ground floor with stilted stone heads and linking imposts, those at 1st floor with moulded stone heads on brackets and key-blocks with anthemion crests, and those at 2nd floor with stone shoulders and keystones; the 3rd floor has round-headed windows now furnished with casements. Return sides, 8 bays, similar but simpler. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8437197790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457196
- 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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