Power Hall of Museum of Science and Industry
POWER HALL OF MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291458
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Power Hall of Museum of Science and Industry
- Statutory Address:
- POWER HALL OF MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291458
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Power Hall of Museum of Science and Industry
- Statutory Address 1:
- POWER HALL OF MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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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.
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:
- POWER HALL OF MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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 83155 97820
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/11/2016
SJ8397NW
698-1/30/218
MANCHESTER
LIVERPOOL ROAD (North side)
Power Hall of Museum of Science and Industry
GV
II
Railway goods transfer shed, now museum exhibition hall. 1855, for London and North Western Railway. Red brick with some sandstone dressings, hipped slate roof. Very long rectangular plan parallel to street, with wide splayed corner and short return to Lower Byrom Street. Single storey, 6:7:4 blind windows with wagon entrances between these groups and another in the splayed corner; round-headed blind windows with stepped surrounds and raised stone sills, large square-headed wagon doorways with flat-arched heads and stone fenders at the bases of the jambs (formerly furnished with sliding wooden doors but now glazed); continuous brick frieze with simplified corbel table and white brick band, brick parapet with stone coping. Three-bay return side similar.
Includes offices at the W end with four pairs of arched windows with keystones and shared stone sills to each of the two storeys, which are separated by a dentillated string course (formerly eaves, prior to the addition of the first floor). Rubbed-brick arched doorway on Liverpool Road with stone open pediment above retains timber double doors and later fanlight. Four-pane timber sash windows to front and rear elevation (some to rear altered during conversion to museum). Modillioned timber box gutter, central four-pot chimney stack and two-pot end stack. Rear (N) wall has carriage stones at each corner. Office interior said to retain fireplaces and cornices.
Listing NGR: SJ8315597820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388281
- 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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