Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club
MANCHESTER TENNIS AND RACQUET CLUB, 33, BLACKFRIARS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386080
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club
- Statutory Address:
- MANCHESTER TENNIS AND RACQUET CLUB, 33, BLACKFRIARS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386080
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANCHESTER TENNIS AND RACQUET CLUB, 33, BLACKFRIARS ROAD
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:
- MANCHESTER TENNIS AND RACQUET CLUB, 33, BLACKFRIARS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83347 98832
Details
SALFORD
SJ8398NW BLACKFRIARS ROAD 949-1/20/6 (South West side) 21/01/96 No.33 Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club
GV II*
Tennis and racquet club. c1880. By George T Redmayne, with later alterations. Brick with terracotta dressings, slate and part-glazed roof. Irregularly grouped as T-plan, with main courts buildings ranged parallel to street and set back from it with central wing advanced towards street, housing entrance, and flanking buildings filling in the angles each side. EXTERIOR: entrance block expressed as 3 storeys, with moulded round-arched doorway in flat-roofed porch to right, and round-headed window alongside. Arcaded range of 3 round-headed windows with continuous hoodmould to first floor, and blind round-arched window in raised upper storey. Fluted chimney stack alongside to right hand side. Shallow gabled range to right, with arcade of 4 bays to ground floor, with 3 round-arched windows. Paired windows set beneath wide relieving arch with terracotta panelling in the spandrel beneath gable above. Flat-roofed single-storeyed block to left of entrance, also with round-arched windows and high parapet. INTERIOR: substantially unaltered, with racquets court retaining original surfaces and complete real tennis court together with other principal reception rooms and staircase. HISTORICAL NOTE: the club was founded in 1878, and moved to its present site c1880. Originally it comprised a real tennis court, racquets court and bowling alley, to which a squash court was added as an upper floor in 1925. (Aberdare Lord: Willis Faber Book of Tennis and Racquets: London: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SJ8334798832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Aberdare, Lord, The Willis Faber Book of Tennis and Rackets, (1980)
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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