32 and 34 Laystall Street

32 AND 34, LAYSTALL STREET, MANCHESTER, M1 2JZ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282990
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
32 and 34 Laystall Street
Statutory Address:
32 AND 34, LAYSTALL STREET, MANCHESTER, M1 2JZ
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282990
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
32 and 34 Laystall Street
Statutory Address 1:
32 AND 34, LAYSTALL STREET, MANCHESTER, M1 2JZ

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
32 AND 34, LAYSTALL STREET, MANCHESTER, M1 2JZ

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:
SJ8497098282

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/04/2016

SJ8498SE
698-1/29/200

MANCHESTER
LAYSTALL STREET (South side)
Nos.32 and 34

(Formerly listed as No.32)

GV
II

Garment warehouse. Dated 1838; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with dressings of moulded buff and white terracotta; roof not visible. Rectangular plan. Eclectic style with Romanesque elements.Three storey 5-window facade, symmetrical, centre bay breaking forwards. Centre has segmental-headed waggon doorway with terracotta surround enriched with shafts, keystone, etc., 1st-floor oriel with window of 2 round-headed lights, Tudor-flower band, arcaded 3-light window at 2nd floor and above this attached lettering "ESTABLISHED 1838". Flanking the centre, round-headed doorways at ground floor, round-headed windows at 1st floor, square-headed windows at 2nd floor, and beyond these coupled windows on all floors, those at ground and 2nd floors square-headed, and those at 1st floor round-headed and set in large round-headed blank arches (Tudor-flower sill-bands to these); all these windows with much moulded terracotta enrichment, including twisted shafts with foliated caps. Enriched bracketed eaves. Unusual degree of High Victorian decoration on relatively small building.

Listing NGR: SJ8497098282

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Legacy System number:
388263
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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