Prudential Assurance Buildings
PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE BUILDINGS, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282574
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Prudential Assurance Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE BUILDINGS, UNION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282574
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Prudential Assurance Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE BUILDINGS, UNION 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:
- PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE BUILDINGS, UNION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 92657 04877
Details
OLDHAM
SD9204NE UNION STREET 780-1/6/85 (North side) 23/01/73 Prudential Assurance Buildings
GV II
Office building. 1889. By Alfred Waterhouse. Brick with terracotta dressings, and red plain tiled roof. 3 storeys raised over basement with attic. 3-window range with recessed polygonal towers over entrances to each side. Polished granite plinth and piers to round-arched entrance in shallow projecting gabled porch. 3 wide round-arched windows to ground floor, each of 3 lights with small upper panes. Raised lettering "Prudential Assurance Buildings" over ground floor windows. 3-light mullioned and transomed windows above, with decorative terracotta panelled architraves and cartouches over each window. Second floor windows similar. Lozenge frieze below modillion eaves cornice. New dormer windows in roof, and gable end stacks. 2-light transomed windows in 3 faces of angle towers, with decorative terracotta dressings. Attic storey above cornice, and interlace decoration to frieze over attic windows. West return of white glazed brick, with long 2-storeyed wing with 5 wide segmentally-arched windows and smaller windows to service range beyond. East return brick and terracotta, with canted angle to rear gable. Rear range parallel to street links the two wings. INTERIOR of main hall has ornate plaster panelled ceiling and tiled walls.
Listing NGR: SD9265704877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388950
- 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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