15 and 17 King Street
15 and 17, King Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282983
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 15 and 17 King Street
- Statutory Address:
- 15 and 17, King Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282983
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 15 and 17 King Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15 and 17, King Street
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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:
- 15 and 17, King 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 83725 98328
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/08/2019
SJ8398SE
698-1/27/179
MANCHESTER
KING STREET (north side)
Nos.15 and 17
GV
II
Shop. 1902 by Francis William Maxwell of Maxwell and Tuke. Probably steel-framed but with elaborate "timber-framed" cladding; slate roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with rounded corner. Tudor style.
Four storeys with five bays to King Street, one curved corner bay, and three wide bays to Police Street; panelled piers and large plate-glass windows to ground floor; carved wallposts to first and second floors, wooden blind balustrading between the floors, projected eaves with mutules, an octagonal turret over the corner with swept slated sides and arcaded cupola, gables flanking this and coupled gables over the fourth and fifth bays, all with herring-bone struts and finials.
The first floor has wooden mullion-and transom windows (six lights to King Street, ten curved lights to the corner and eight lights to Police Street); the second floor has set-in oriels with arched centre lights and sharply-curved corners with transoms and small-paned top lights (and those in the wide bays to Police Street flanked by galleries with splat-baluster fronts); and the top floor has ten-light mullion-and-transom windows (those in the narrower bays to King Street forming continuous fenestration and those in the wide bays to Police Street flanked by lozenge panels).
A good pastiche of the richest period of decorative timber-framing, forming a very striking feature in the street. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ8372598330
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388232
- 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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