73 AND 75, PRINCESS STREET
73 AND 75, PRINCESS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270912
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 73 AND 75, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 73 AND 75, PRINCESS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270912
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 73 AND 75, PRINCESS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 73 AND 75, 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:
- 73 AND 75, 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 83991 98058
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE PRINCESS STREET 698-1/27/333 (North East side) 03/10/74 Nos.73 AND 75
GV II
Shop with offices over. c.1870-80, altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of red brick, dressings of blue brick and sandstone, slate roof. Shallow rectangular plan parallel to street, on end-of-block site. Gothic style. Four storeys and attic, 10 bays; ground floor replaced by C20 shop-front. The 1st and 2nd floors are treated as a giant arcade of segmental-pointed arches with narrow pilastered piers which rise from a weathered sill-band and have carved stone caps and stilted heads, all decorated with blue brick patterning including bands to the piers, diapering to the panels between the floors, and banded heads with saw-toothed arch-bands, the 5th bay containing 2-light windows with colonnettes. The 3rd floor has a weathered stone sill-band and windows set in a running arcade composed of pairs of small 2-centred arches with polychrome enrichment, each pair having a stone colonnette with cushion capital (except the 5th bay which has triple arches and 2 colonnettes), all under a deeply-moulded brick corbel-table. Steeply pitched mansard roof with gabled 3-light dormer window over 5th bay, flanked by coupled gabled 2-light dormers, all with similar enrichments. All windows sashed without glazing bars. Three-bay returned sides in matching style.
Listing NGR: SJ8399198058
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456832
- 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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