Brazil House
BRAZIL HOUSE, 105 AND 107, PRINCESS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270871
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Brazil House
- Statutory Address:
- BRAZIL HOUSE, 105 AND 107, PRINCESS STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05791/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270871
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Brazil House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRAZIL HOUSE, 105 AND 107, PRINCESS 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:
- BRAZIL HOUSE, 105 AND 107, PRINCESS 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 84240 97802
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/342 (North East side) 03/10/74 Nos.105 AND 107 Brazil House
GV II
Pair of shipping warehouses, now offices, etc. c.1870-80; altered. Yellow brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Trapeziform plan on island site, at right-angles to street, with rear loading bay. Eclectic style, with some Gothic features. Four storeys over basements, 2+2 windows (the outer windows tripartite), symmetrical; with chamfered plinth, saw-tooth sill-bands to all floors, impost bands to all except the top floor, heavily bracketed cornice. The ground floor has tall coupled doorways in the centre, with pilaster jambs, carved stiff-leaf imposts, and 5-stepped segmental-arched heads with keyblocks, flanked by tripartite windows with segmental-arched centre lights and moulded surrounds with stiff-leaf imposts; the upper floors all have square-headed tripartite windows to the outer bays and single-light windows over the doors, those at 1st and 2nd floors with pilaster jambs and the lower with stilted moulded heads. All these windows sashed without glazing bars. Lift-head on roof. Return sides very simple, with windows grouped 4, 4, 4 and 2; loading bay entrances at rear end. Interior not inspected. Forms group with No.103 to left (q.v.) and 109 to right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8424097802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456841
- 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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