28, King Street
28, King Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282984
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 28, King Street
- Statutory Address:
- 28, King Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282984
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 28, King Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 28, King 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:
- 28, 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 83733 98293
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/11/2017
SJ 8398 SE
698-1/27/181
MANCHESTER
KING STREET (south side),
No. 28
(Formerly listed as Laura Ashley shop)
GV
II
Shop. Later C19, altered. Painted stucco on brick, slate roof. Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Three storeys and attic with five-light window at first floor. Double-fronted shop front at ground floor (probably C20); continuous arcaded fenestration to both upper floors, with round-headed arched lights at first floor, square-headed at second floor, both sets of windows set back behind delicate screens of slender cast-iron columns, those at first floor with ornamented open-work spandrels and those at second floor with tendril-like arch-bracing to the head. Prominent dentilled and modillioned cornice over second floor; three-window attic storey with central round-headed two-light window in architrave with segmental open pediment, flanked by square windows under corbel-tables.
Forms group with No. 30 to the left (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8373398293
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388234
- 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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