16, NICHOLAS STREET
16, NICHOLAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271453
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 16, NICHOLAS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16, NICHOLAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271453
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 16, NICHOLAS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16, NICHOLAS 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:
- 16, NICHOLAS 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 84154 97983
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW NICHOLAS STREET 698-1/32/257 (South West side) No.16
GV II
Warehouse, now shops, offices etc. c.1870, by Alfred Waterhouse; altered. Sandstone ashlar and red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan [with integral loading bay at rear]. Free Elizabethan style. Five storeys and attic, over basement, a symmetrical 2:6:2 window range, the ends under steeply-pitched gables and breaking forwards slightly; the basement and ground floor of ashlar, the upper floors with quoined corners and surrounds, sill-bands to all floors, bracketed cornice, gable copings with kneelers and a parapet between them. The ground floor has a round-headed central doorway moulded in 3 orders, with a pilastered and pitched surround, and coupled round-headed windows with linked hoodmoulds; the 1st and 2nd floors have segmental-headed windows, the upper shouldered, the 3rd and 4th floors have square-headed windows (the upper also shouldered), the gables have coupled segmental-headed windows, and all these windows are sashed without glazing bars. The centre has 3 flat-roofed 3-light dormers above the parapet. The 5-bay side walls are similar.
Listing NGR: SJ8415497983
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454816
- 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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