Former Wholesale Fish Market
79, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282996
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Wholesale Fish Market
- Statutory Address:
- 79, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282996
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Wholesale Fish Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- 79, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 9-19, THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- FORMER WHOLESALE FISH MARKET, HIGH 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:
- 79, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 9-19, THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WHOLESALE FISH MARKET, HIGH 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 84337 98694
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498 HIGH STREET 698-1/17/163 (North side) 08/10/73 former Wholesale Fish Market
GV II
Includes: No.79 HIGH STREET. Includes: Nos.9 TO 19 THOMAS STREET. Wholesale fish market with front range of shops and offices; the market building now reduced to its outer walls. Dated 1873 on High Street facade; partly demolished. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings, slate roof (front range only). Large rectangular plan with front range at west end, site of market to rear of this. Romanesque style. The High Street (south) facade of the former market consists of 4 wide gables, each gable a symmetrical 3-bay composition, with rusticated stone plinth, stone sill-bands and imposts, and stepped gable with Lombard frieze and pitched stone copings with apex finial: a large round-headed archway flanked by round-headed windows, all with slender stone shafts which have foliated caps and stone surrounds to the heads, the central arches with wrought-iron gates and segmental lintels with inscriptions, and carved tympana depicting different episodes of a fishing voyage. One lintel inscribed "OPENED:14:FEB:1873:BOOTH:MAYOR" and the others "WHOLESALE:FISH:MARKETS". North side similar. The front block (9 to 19 Thomas Street), a 3-storey 9-bay range, symmetrical, the centre and end bays breaking forwards slightly and the ends with attics, has a central pedimented doorway and C20 shop fronts at ground floor, arcades of large round-headed arched windows at 1st floor, 2- and 3-light sashed windows at 2nd floor with shafts which have carved capitals, a moulded brick frieze and stone cornice, a pedimented upstand in the centre, tall corniced chimneys between the bays, and gabled dormers over the outer bays; rounded corners with doorways at ground floor, curved 3-light windows in enriched stone surrounds on both upper floors, balustraded parapets, and mansard roofs with wrought-iron cresting. One-bay returned ends in similar style.
Listing NGR: SJ8433798694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388186
- 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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