Former Reform Club Manchester Club
FORMER REFORM CLUB, 81, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282987
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Reform Club Manchester Club
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER REFORM CLUB, 81, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282987
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Reform Club Manchester Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER REFORM CLUB, 81, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MANCHESTER CLUB, 50, SPRING GARDENS
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:
- FORMER REFORM CLUB, 81, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MANCHESTER CLUB, 50, SPRING GARDENS
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 84027 98281
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SW KING STREET 698-1/28/193 (North side) 03/10/74 No.81 former Reform Club
GV II*
Includes: No.50 Manchester Club SPRING GARDENS. Political club, now office and club. 1870-1, by Edward Salomons; altered. Sandstone ashlar with polychrome dressings, hipped slate roofs. Double-pile plan, the rear range projecting to the right, on end-of-block site, with chamfered corners. Venetian Gothic style. Three storeys with basement and attic, 5 bays plus the corners, symmetrical; chamfered plinth, cornices to ground and 1st floors, 3-sided oriels to the corners finished as turrets with slated spirelets, prominent bracketed main cornice and blind-arcaded parapet. The ground floor has an elaborate round-headed doorway in a porch composed of colonnettes and concave under-hang to a projected balustraded 1st-floor balcony, coupled square-headed sashed windows with shafts to the other bays, and at the corners similar colonnettes to elaborately bracketed under-hangs of the oriels (a window to the left corner and a doorway to the right). The tall 1st floor has an arcade of large round-headed arches with banded 2-centred extradoses and hoodmoulds, carried on coupled columns with carved capitals, each arch containing a tall 2-light sashed window with round-headed lights and circular tracery, and a balustraded balcony; and the 2nd floor has small coupled 2-centred arched windows with shafts and an impost band,and a small wrought-iron balcony to the central pair. (Former dormer windows and central spire now removed.) The oriels have very elaborate treatment, including tall slender arcaded windows to 1st floor with carved emblematic panels above, a prominent balcony to 2nd floor with wrought-iron balustrade, and an arcaded cupola with projecting grotesques. Return sides similar in the 1st bay, but differing and simpler to the rear of this, the right-hand side with an arcaded quadrantal 2-storey oriel in the angle of the rear wing. Interior (as reported 03.10.74): hall and staircase with linenfold panelling, 2-storey Grand Dining Room, and huge billiard room within the roof.
Listing NGR: SJ8402798281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388246
- 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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