Sunlight House
SUNLIGHT HOUSE, QUAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270915
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sunlight House
- Statutory Address:
- SUNLIGHT HOUSE, QUAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270915
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sunlight House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNLIGHT HOUSE, QUAY 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:
- SUNLIGHT HOUSE, QUAY 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 83473 98031
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398 QUAY STREET 698-1/16/347 (North side) 20/06/88 Sunlight House
GV II
Office block. 1932, by Joseph Sunlight. Steel frame with cladding of Portland stone, slated 3-tier mansard roof with glazed centre. Large square plan with central light-well. International Modern style with classical elements. Ten storeys plus 4 attic storeys successively set back, 8 bays plus wide canted corner to right rising to octagonal turret with domed lantern and apex finial; ground and 1st floors treated as plinth, 6-storey 5-bay pilastrade to centre, with moulded frieze over 7th floor and enriched cornice over 8th floor, plain parapet over 10th floor. Very regular fenestration with casements of 3 lights to the 5-bay centre and 2 lights to the end bays, metal panels between floors; 3-light attic windows, those of the first 3 tiers set in individual projected rectangular dormers. Shop windows and a round-headed archway at ground floor. Canted corner treated as tower, given strong vertical emphasis by narrow 3-light mullioned windows in each face tiered continuously from 2nd to 10th floors, with carved decoration over 10th floor, a 1-storey drum over this, set-back 2-storey continuation, and set-back lantern; square-headed doorways to entrance porch at ground floor. Return to right and rear elevation similar, but with slated attic and extruded dormers. Forms group with Royal London House to right (Nos 188-202 Deansgate, q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8347398031
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456846
- 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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