Rhodesia House
RHODESIA HOUSE, 102, BLOOM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270911
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Rhodesia House
- Statutory Address:
- RHODESIA HOUSE, 102, BLOOM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270911
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Rhodesia House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RHODESIA HOUSE, 102, BLOOM STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- RHODESIA HOUSE, 52, PRINCES 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:
- RHODESIA HOUSE, 102, BLOOM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- RHODESIA HOUSE, 52, PRINCES 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 84205 97772
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/330 (South West side) No.52 Rhodesia House
GV II
Includes: No.102 Rhodesia House BLOOM STREET. Various packing warehouses. c.1880-90. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on island site. Eclectic style. Four storeys with basements and attics, 3 bays plus chamfered corners, symmetrical; punch-dressed stone plinth, string-course and cornice over ground floor, pairs of string-courses between floors, moulded main cornice with brick parapet, attic above this with 2 large pedimented gables, steeply-pitched hipped roof with corner finials. The ground floor has a round-headed doorway with brick pilasters, carved capitals, moulded stone head with carved enrichments including keystone and swags and flanked by pairs of moulded brackets to the cornice above; coupled round-headed windows each side, with hoodmoulds and keystones (boarded at time of survey); upper floors have coupled sashed windows to the centre and tiered segmental bay windows of stone in the outer bays, with curved 3-light sashes and panels between floors decorated with swags. The attic dormers have pilasters, 3-light windows, and triangular pediments with stone surrounds flanked by short square chimneys. The corners have round-headed windows at ground floor, square-headed above. Nine-bay return wall, in similar style, including one bay with segmental bay windows and pedimented gable, and coupled loading bay doorways. Interior not inspected. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8420597772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456829
- 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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