Fraser House
42, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283064
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Fraser House
- Statutory Address:
- 42, PORTLAND STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283064
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Fraser House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FRASER HOUSE, 36, CHARLOTTE 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:
- 42, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FRASER HOUSE, 36, CHARLOTTE 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 84250 98015
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SW CHARLOTTE STREET 698-1/28/50 (South side) 03/10/74 No.36 Fraser House
GV II
Includes: No.42 PORTLAND STREET. Textile manufacturer's warehouse, now restaurant, gallery, etc. c.1855-60, by Edward Walters; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Rectangular plan at right-angles to Charlotte Street, with loading at right-hand side (Reyner Street). Italianate style. Basement and 4 storeys, 3 bays, with rusticated stone plinth, frieze and cornice to ground floor, dentilled sill-bands to the 2nd and 3rd floors, a massive bracketed cornice and a brick parapet with corniced upstands at the corners (probably chimneys). The ground floor has a large round-headed doorway to the right with moulded surround and enriched architrave with prominent modillioned cornice, 3 square headed windows in the centre and coupled stilted windows to the left; the upper floors have arched windows, those at 1st and 2nd floors grouped 2:3:2 and those at top floor (which are much smaller) grouped 3:5:2, all with moulded stone heads linked by impost bands, and those of the outer bays matching the fenestration of the 5-bay left side to Portland Street. These windows are coupled and linked by impost bands on all main floors, those at ground floor stilted, those at 1st floor round-headed under semicircular moulded arches with keystones, those at 2nd floor round-headed with coupled heads in matching style; and the 3rd floor has small round-headed triple windows. Right-hand (functional rear) has, inter alia, a full-height loading slot surmounted by a turret, and a loading bay beyond this. INTERIOR: closely-spaced rows of iron columns and wooden beams, those the in former ground-floor showroom decorated as fluted columns with foliated caps and the beams with dentilled cornices; front stairs to 1st floor only, back stairs (of stone) to full height.
Listing NGR: SJ8425098015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387985
- 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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