1-7, Princess Road Manchester, England

Listed Building Data

1-7, Princess Road has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1246960
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
3 October 1974
Name
1-7, PRINCESS ROAD (See details for further address information)
Location
1-7, PRINCESS ROAD59 AND 61, CROSS STREET
District
Manchester
Grid Reference
SJ 83847 98200
Easting
383847.0000
Northing
398200.0000

Listed Building Description

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MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE PRINCESS STREET 698-1/27/320 (North East side) 03/10/74 Nos.1 TO 7 (Odd)

GV II

Includes: Nos.59 AND 61 CROSS STREET. Shops and offices. 1877, by Pennington and Bridgen; altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings, red tiled roof. Curved trapeziform plan on end-of-block site. Gothic style. Four storeys and attic, 8 windows including corner and Cross Street side; stone ground floor and frieze with Tudor-flower and grotesque ornament; slender chamfered shafts of brick and stone rising to a large gable in each main facade and 2 small gables over the corner, all with tourelles and finials and linked by open-work parapets, stone spirelet to end of Cross Street facade, steeply-pitched roof with small hipped dormers and large clustered chimneys. Ground floor of each facade has 2 wide elliptical-arched windows with moulded heads, a 2-centred arched doorway to the left of the Princess Street facade, with carved enrichment and traceried overlight (C20 shopfronts inserted in corner); 1st and 2nd floors have tiered mullion-and transom windows to the gabled bays, those in the main facades canted and those at the corner bowed, all with terracotta traceried panels between the floors and elaborately traceried open-work parapets, and various other transomed windows; 3rd floor has mostly 2-light windows with Gothic enrichment, including 2 in the Princess Street facade with carved stone gablets; gables have 2-centred arched windows with tracery.

Listing NGR: SJ8384798200