109, PRINCESS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270914
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: 109, PRINCESS STREET
Statutory Address:: 109, PRINCESS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270914
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: 109, PRINCESS STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 109, PRINCESS STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 109, 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 84261 97779

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/343 (North East side) 03/10/74 No.109

GV II

Packing and shipping warehouse, now offices. 1863, by Clegg and Knowles. Red brick with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan on island site, at right-angles to street. Italian palazzo style. Four storeys over basement, 8 bays, symmetrical; with rusticated punch-dressed plinth, narrow chamfered corners with channelled rustication in the centre and rusticated quoins to the angles, cornice over ground floor, sill-bands to all upper floors, enriched frieze and bracketed cornice. Round-headed arcades to ground floor, 3:1:3 bays: central doorway with rusticated surround, set-in polished shafts with carved capitals, moulded head with volute keystone and carved spandrels, and prominent cornice on pairs of heavily decorated brackets and surmounted by ornamental iron balcony railings; flanking arches on brick piers, with moulded stone heads, keystones and linking imposts, containing tall basement openings with decorated cast-iron railings and shorter windows with altered glazing. 1st and 2nd floors have segmental-headed sashed windows with set-in shafts, moulded imposts, and stilted stone heads with keystones, and 3rd floor has round-headed sashes with similar enrichments. Left side wall (to Bloom Street), 10 bays in matching style, with segmental-headed loading bay entrance near far end. Forms group with Nos 105 and 107 to left (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8426197779

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Legacy System number:: 456842
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.