Halls Buildings

HALLS BUILDINGS, 69-75, PICCADILLY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271112
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Halls Buildings
Statutory Address:
HALLS BUILDINGS, 69-75, PICCADILLY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1271112
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Halls Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
HALLS BUILDINGS, 69-75, PICCADILLY

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HALLS BUILDINGS, 69-75, PICCADILLY

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 84568 98244

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE PICCADILLY 698-1/29/290 (North East side) 20/06/88 Nos.69 TO 75 (Odd) Halls Buildings

GV II

Warehouses and offices, now cafes, offices etc. c.1870-80, altered. Sandstone ashlar with some polished granite (roof not visible). Rectangular plan. Eclectic Venetian Gothic style. Five storeys with 2 wide central bays and narrow end bays breaking forwards very slightly (windows 1:4:4:1); cornice over ground floor (with parapet blind-arcaded in front of 1st-floor windows), cornice to 1st floor, carved sill-bands to the 3rd and 4th floors, prominent bracketed main cornice with low blocking course, pairs of carved pedestals over the outer bays and chimneys to the rear of these. The ground floor has square-headed doorways to the outer bays, both with banded pilasters and pairs of zoomorphic corbels supporting cornices to segmental-headed overlights (C20 shop-fronts between these); at 1st floor, the outer bays have round-headed windows of 2 round-arched lights with shafts, under cornices like those of the doors. Otherwise, the upper floors have 4-light windows in running arcades, those at 1st and 2nd floor round-headed, those at 3rd floor stilted-segmental and those at 4th floor square-headed, all with shafts, carved capitals and imposts, and 1-light windows to the outer bays, mostly in matching style but those at 3rd floor with cornices. Interior not inspected. Forms group with Nos 77 to 83 to right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8456898244

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Legacy System number:
455660
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.

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