54 and 56, King Street
54 and 56, King Street, Manchester, M2 4LY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282986
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 54 and 56, King Street
- Statutory Address:
- 54 and 56, King Street, Manchester, M2 4LY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282986
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 54 and 56, King Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54 and 56, King Street, Manchester, M2 4LY
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:
- 54 and 56, King Street, Manchester, M2 4LY
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 83796 98289
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/04/2020
SJ8398
698-1/27/189
MANCHESTER
KING STREET (south side)
Nos 54 and 56
(formerly listed as No.56)
GV
II
Also known as: No.41 SOUTH KING STREET.
Town house, now shops and office. c.1700, much altered. Stucco on brick, roof not visible. Rectangular double-depth plan at right-angles to street. Three storey, three window facade, with C20 shops at ground floor, four-pane sashed windows at first and second floors, all with moulded architraves (all flanked by C20 pseudo shutters and those in the centre with C20 balconies); bracketed cornice.
Principal features of interest are in the interior, front room at first floor with fielded panelling, fluted Ionic pilasters and plastered beams; rear room with late C17 or very early C18 moulded plaster emblems on the frieze (portcullis, running deer, flying boar etc), and moulded plaster decoration to the soffits of the beams (foliation with masks); closed string staircase with turned balusters and square newels. Linked by corridors to first floor of No.41 South King Street (q.v.), which contains the entrance.
Listing NGR: SJ8379598284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388242
- 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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