Kingsley House
KINGSLEY HOUSE, 13 AND 15, NEWTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271451
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsley House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSLEY HOUSE, 13 AND 15, NEWTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271451
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSLEY HOUSE, 13 AND 15, NEWTON 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:
- KINGSLEY HOUSE, 13 AND 15, NEWTON 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 84562 98307
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET 698-1/29/249 (North West side) Nos.13 AND 15 Kingsley House
GV II
Garment warehouses and workshops. Late C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone ashlar plinth and dressings, slate roof with skylghts. Rectangular plan. Basement and 3 storeys plus 2 attic storeys; 5 bays between curved corners, with a high moulded plinth, a frieze and cornice to the ground floor, a prominent bracketed cornice over the 2nd floor, attic treated as a high parapet and mansard roof with skylight attic windows. The ground floor, treated in C18 style, has a doorway in the 2nd bay with an architrave including a swag on the frieze and an open pediment in the cornice; and windows with simpler architraves (those at the corners curved); the upper floors and parapet attic (which are astylar), have coupled windows in the 3 centre bays and single windows in the other bays, all with stone sills and heads and all sashed (mostly without glazing bars, and those at the corners curved). Chimneys on the parapet above the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th piers. Irregular skylight fenestration. The return walls have 2 bays in matching style, that to the left has 2 bays of staggered windows beyond, and that to the right has inter alia a square turret on the roof, with a pyramidal roof. History: occupied c.1905 by mantle and costume manufacturers, with workrooms on the 4th and 5th floors.
Listing NGR: SJ8456298307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454809
- 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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