JOSHUA HOYLE BUILDING, INCLUDING ROBY HOUSE

5-9, GORE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271127
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: JOSHUA HOYLE BUILDING, INCLUDING ROBY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: 5-9, GORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271127
Date first listed:: 16-Jul-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: JOSHUA HOYLE BUILDING, INCLUDING ROBY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: 5-9, GORE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: JOSHUA HOYLE BUILDING, INCLUDING ROBY HOUSE, 38-50, PICCADILLY

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 5-9, GORE STREET
Statutory Address:: JOSHUA HOYLE BUILDING, INCLUDING ROBY HOUSE, 38-50, 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 84600 98079

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE PICCADILLY 698-1/29/284 (South West side) 17/07/87 Nos.38 TO 50 (Even) Joshua Hoyle Building, including Roby House (Formerly Listed as: PICCADILLY No.50)

GV II

Includes: Nos.5 TO 9 GORE STREET. Textile warehouse. 1904-6, by Charles Heathcote and Sons. Steel frame with brick cladding, dressings of green and cream glazed terracotta, slate roof. Irregular plan on corner site. Eclectic style with Elizabethan accent. Five storeys and attic, 6 bays to Piccadilly plus canted corner at left end; gabled end bays, slightly narrower centre bays with coupled gables, and intermediate bays with gabled dormers; 3-light mullioned windows to all floors, those of the end and centre bays in canted oriels tiered from 2nd to 4th floors, with enriched terracotta surrounds including raised lettering between 2nd and 3rd floors of the centre "JOSHUA HOYLE AND SONS LTD". Left end has canted corner bay (clasped between gabled bays of front and return walls), with Baroque-style arched entrance under dentilled semicircular canopy and flanked by oculi with swags, 5-light canted windows tiered up to 4th floor, with elaborate enrichment, and a set-back turret with octagonal roof surmounted by a wooden bellcote with finial. Left return has one gabled bay with staggered windows, and to rear of that a warehouse range with coupled loading doorways at ground floor and 2-light windows above. Interior not inspected. Of considerable historical interest as early example of steel-frame construction.

Listing NGR: SJ8460098079

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Legacy System number:: 455655
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.