FORMER POLICE AND AMBULANCE STATION

FORMER POLICE AND AMBULANCE STATION, GOULDEN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292052
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:: FORMER POLICE AND AMBULANCE STATION
Statutory Address:: FORMER POLICE AND AMBULANCE STATION, GOULDEN STREET

Not much remains of the once imposing Goulden Street Police and Fire Station apart from the exterior wall and stack. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292052
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:: FORMER POLICE AND AMBULANCE STATION
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER POLICE AND AMBULANCE STATION, GOULDEN STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER POLICE AND AMBULANCE STATION, GOULDEN STREET

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District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ8471098885

Details

SJ8498 698-1/17/449 20/01/92

MANCHESTER

GOULDEN STREET, Ancoats (North East side) Former Police and Ambulance Station

II

Former police and fire station. Mid to later C19, altered and part reduced. Red brick with some sandstone ashlar, hipped slate roofs. Rectangular plan on island site incorporating office and domestic block on west side, cell range to south of this, with tall chimney stack, and fire engine garage on east side, all within a curtain wall. One, 2 and 4 storeys, with basements. Curtain wall with sandstone ashlar plinth, rusticated quoins to the angles, plain cornice and parapet carried round. The principal feature of the entrance front on the west side is the gable end of the 4-storey main block, which has a 3-bay facade of ashlar, in classical style, the ground floor pilastered and panelled, with a cornice, a giant arcade of round-headed blank arches to the upper floors, with plain pilasters, moulded imposts and moulded heads with volute keystones, frieze with raised lettering "POLICE STATION B DIVISION", a prominent modillioned cornice, and a balustraded parapet with carved shield of Arms in the centre (with lion and unicorn supporters) under a segmental pediment. To the left is a short rebuilt section of the curtain wall containing a square-headed wagon doorway with square cast-iron pillars, and left of this the ground floor facade of a formerly similar tall block on this corner. To the right of the main block the curtain wall is blind, and rising above it is a tall rectangular chimney with panelled sides and stone cornice with brackets. The right-hand return wall, which includes the south end of a 2-storey block (containing 1st-floor drill hall) has 2 small and 2 large doorways (all apparently inserted doorways). The east side is almost filled by a colonnade of 13 garage doorways with square panelled cast-iron columns and wooden lintels. Interior: many original features including offices with domestic quarters above, prison cells with plain wooden bunks, etc. Representative of growth of administrative institutions of large city; strikingly defensive design, making an interesting comparison with the later Police and Fire Station in London Road (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8471098885

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Legacy System number:: 388149
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.