1, 1A and 3 Market Street and 2 Post Office Street
1, 1A AND 3, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323744
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 1A and 3 Market Street and 2 Post Office Street
- Statutory Address:
- 1, 1A AND 3, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323744
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 1, 1A and 3 Market Street and 2 Post Office Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, 1A AND 3, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2, POST OFFICE 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:
- 1, 1A AND 3, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, POST OFFICE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7676188012
Details
In the entry for:
SJ 7688 SE
10/16
ALTRINCHAM
MARKET STREET
(south-east side)
Nos 1 & 3
The address shall be amended to read:
MARKET STREET
(south-east side)
Nos 1, 1A and 3
------------------------------------
SJ 7688 SE
10/16
ALTRINCHAM
MARKET STREET
(south-east side)
Nos. 1 and 3.
G.V.
II
Includes No. 2 Post Office Street. Morrison's Central
Auction Galleries, now shops. 1890's for Sir William Cunliffe
Brooks. Header bond brick, stone dressings, decorative
timber framing and clay tile roof. 4 bays on Market Street
and 2 plus the Auction Hall on Post Office Street. 2
storeys plus attic with corner entrance. Entrance is curved
in plan, has a stone surround and a balcony above with cast
iron railings and large stone brackets. The first floor has
decorative timber framing which continues on Market Street,
and a curved 4-light mullion and transom window. Bays 1 and
2 on Market Street have ground floor 2-light mullion and
transom windows; bays 3 and 4 have 2 doorways and a
shopfront with 3-light mullion and transom windows above and
2 dormer windows above that. The Auction Hall on Post Office
Street has one 8-light and one 6-light mullion and transom
window and a hipped roof. The main roof sweeps round the
corner and has a weather-vane recording the patron, "WCB".
Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ7676188012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212770
- 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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