Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home
Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home, 51, The Crescent
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386174
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home
- Statutory Address:
- Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home, 51, The Crescent
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- Date:
- 1999-09-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/01748/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386174
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home, 51, The Crescent
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:
- Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home, 51, The Crescent
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 81958 98651
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/09/2019
SJ8198NE
949-1/17/99
SALFORD
THE CRESCENT (South side)
No.51, Queen's Jubilee Nurses Home
(Formerly listed as No.51, Former Nurses' Home)
GV
II
Former nurses home, now library of Working Class Movement. Dated 1897, architect Henry Lord. Brick with terracotta dressings and some mock timbering. Plain-tiled roof. Neo-vernacular style.
EXTERIOR: three storeys, asymmetrical plan with three gables to The Crescent, and entrance to right of centre. Entrance front faces The Crescent, comprising three wide gables, and narrow projecting gable over entrance. Flat roofed porch houses round-arched doorway with moulded pilasters each side, and brick mullioned window. Balustraded parapet. Three grouped sash windows on each floor above. Main gables have irregularly grouped sash windows, and half-timbering at apex.
Return elevation to Acton Square divides into three bays with two gables to the right, and lower bay to left with paired sash windows on each floor. Central gable has off-centre canted bay window to ground floor with parapet curved between terracotta finials. Paired sash windows above. Stack on right of gable, with cartouche carrying date, and fluted shafts. This gable is linked to the-right hand gable by a narrow bay with paired windows in an arched recess at ground floor, with balustraded parapet above. Two sashes to first floor, one set at an angle to the gable. Right-hand gable has two storeyed canted bay with parapet curved between terracotta finials. Three sash windows to second floor above. Half-timbering in gable apexes. End wall stacks.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8195898651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471598
- 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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