City Buildings
CITY BUILDINGS, TODD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380200
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- City Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- CITY BUILDINGS, TODD STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380200
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- City Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CITY BUILDINGS, TODD 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:
- CITY BUILDINGS, TODD 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 84065 98849
Details
SJ 8498, 698-1/17/11136
TODD STREET,
City Buildings
II
Former warehouse, shops and offices, now shops, restaurant and mixed use to upper floors. Built between 1865 and 1875. Sandstone ashlar with red brick to rear and side elevations; Welsh slate roof. The building occupies a prominent corner site and is arranged around a small internal court with vehicular access from Todd Street. Four storeys. Ground floor retains its original stone pilasters with foliated capitals between shop divisions and a number of cast-iron barley-sugar mullions. Vehicular entrance with original iron double-gates. Double -doorway to Corporation Street with stone name panel above (CITY BUILDINGS). Upper floors with regular fenestration and 2-pane plate-glass sash windows throughout. The design is enlivened by the use of varied window arches - round-headed to third floor, segmental to second and square-headed with bracketed cornices to first, paired windows above entrances, plat band and cornice. The corner is treated more elaborately: framed by sunken quadrant angles set between rusticated quoins with round-headed paired windows to all floors, a stone balcony on scrolled brackets with decorative iron railings to second floor, another stone name-panel, the whole surmounted by a stone finial in the form of an oculus. Above this point the roof proper terminates in a fish-scale slate spirelet with a cast-iron finial. Interior not inspected.
City Buildings has considerable townscape value, occupying a significant site in this part of the city and groups well with other listed buildings, including Victoria Station. Its design is much enlivened by varied detailing which survives remarkably intact.
Listing NGR: SJ8406598849
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479884
- 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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