Northern Assurance Building
8, CLARENCE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270910
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Northern Assurance Building
- Statutory Address:
- 8, CLARENCE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270910
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Northern Assurance Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, CLARENCE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NORTHERN ASSURANCE BUILDING, 9-21, 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:
- 8, CLARENCE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHERN ASSURANCE BUILDING, 9-21, 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 83872 98182
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE PRINCESS STREET 698-1/27/321 (North East side) 03/10/74 Nos.9 TO 21 (Odd) Northern Assurance Buildings
GV II
Includes: No.8 CLARENCE STREET. Shops and offices. 1902, by Waddington, Son and Dunkerley; slightly altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of sandstone ashlar and some grey granite, steeply pitched slate roofs on several levels. Irregular plan on corner site. Elaborate building in eclectic style with French Renaissance accent. Mostly 5 storeys and attic, but with return side to Clarence Street partly 3 storeys and attic; principal facade of 3 wide bays (windows of 3, 2 and 3 lights) plus a broad curved corner, symmetrical except for this. Panelled frieze over ground floor (interrupted by central entrance arch), 1st and 2nd floors in French Renaissance style with superimposed triangular pilasters surmounted by ball finials, and enriched panels between floors, the centre feature rising to the 3rd floor and finished as a balustrade parapet with ball finials, the outer bays at 3rd and 4th floors recessed and the heads bridged by semi-circular arches with pierced spandrels, string-course over 4th floor with egg-and-dart enrichment, attic windows under richly decorated shaped gables, that in the centre 2-tiered and flanked by octagonal turrets; curved corner similarly treated and finished as a cylindrical turret which has domed roof with corona and finial, flanked by similar turrets. Central round-headed doorway recessed in a giant round-headed arch which has a 2-light window under the head. Sashed windows without glazing bars, those at 1st and 2nd floors, in centre of 3rd floor, and central gable all recessed behind colonnaded screens; mullion-and-transom windows at 3rd and 4th floors, mullioned windows to attic. Similar fenestration to the corner. Return side to Clarence Street smaller and simpler.
Listing NGR: SJ8387298182
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456069
- 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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