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:
- 17-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Joshua Hoyle Building, Including Roby House
- Statutory Address:
- 5-9, GORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271127
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jul-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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