109 AND 111, PORTLAND STREET
109 AND 111, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271095
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 109 AND 111, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 109 AND 111, PORTLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271095
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 109 AND 111, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 109 AND 111, PORTLAND 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:
- 109 AND 111, PORTLAND 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 84126 97827
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PORTLAND STREET 698-1/32/310 (South East side) Nos.109 AND 111
GV II
Various warehouses (and office of Venezuela Vice Consulate in 1905), now partly bar and nightclub but mostly undergoing renovation at time of survey. c.1860-70. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Rectangular plan parallel to street with loading at rear. Eclectic style. Basement with sub-basement, 5 and 4 storeys with attics, 3+2 bays; banded pilasters and bracketed cornice to ground floor (continued from Nos 105-7, q.v.), sill-bands to 3rd and 4th floors, bracketed eaves cornice, mansard roofs with dormers. No.109 is a symmetrical 3-bay composition, the centre breaking forwards slightly, and has a wide segmental-headed entrance archway with panelled pilasters and reveals and projected cornice on enriched consoles, and an internal flight of steps to recessed sliding double doors; sashed windows which are square-headed at ground floor, round-headed at 1st floor, segmental-headed at 3rd and 4th floors, diminishing in the height and most coupled, with various enrichments; and 3 dormers with pedimented stone architraves. No.111 to the right is 2 bays in matching design (minus the 4th floor) with the entrance in the 2nd bay. The rear has 2 sections of full-height glazing, one tripartite and the other bipartite, with integral loading doors. INTERIOR: 5 rows of iron columns and wooden beams; remains of showroom decoration at 1st floor. Forms group with No.103, and Nos 105 and 107 to left (q.v.), and with Nos 113 to 119 to right (q.v.), together comprising a complete block of former warehouses.
Listing NGR: SJ8412697827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456057
- 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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