Public Laundry Manchester, England
Listed Building Data
Public Laundry 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1247475
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 6 June 1994
- Name
- PUBLIC LAUNDRY
- Location
- PUBLIC LAUNDRY, RHODES STREET
- District
- Manchester
- Grid Reference
- SJ 86323 99776
- Easting
- 386323.0000
- Northing
- 399776.0000
Listed Building Description
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MANCHESTER
SD89NE RHODES STREET, Miles Platting 698-1/5/749 (North East side) Public laundry
II
Public laundry. c.1900-1910. Red brick and buff terracotta, with slate and glazed roof. Rectangular plan. Art Nouveau style. The long 2-storey 5-bay facade is almost symmetrical, the centre and ends breaking forwards, and has a terracotta plinth, red brick ground floor with terracotta quoins and cornice, and terracotta tiled facing to the upper floor. The centre is a 3-bay composition with a Diocletian window at ground floor flanked by segmental-headed doorways with terracotta surrounds including keystones and segmental cornices, and a keyed oculus at 1st floor under a gabled parapet, flanked by pairs of small segmental-headed windows with keystones and cornices like the doorways. The link to the left has 4 windows at ground floor, all square-headed with segmental-headed terracotta architraves including keystones and segmental cornices; the wide end bay to the left of this has 2 pairs of similar windows at ground floor and a lunette at 1st floor with archband and keystone. The link and end bay to the right are similar except that each has an additional opening in the centre: a narrow window in the link (now mostly replaced by a C20 doorway with roller shutter), and a doorway in the end bay (this and the flanking windows now furnished with similar shutters). Continuous glazed skylight to roof. Interior: original Art Nouveau tiling in duck-egg blue with bands and friezes of blue and green swags and festoons; original stained glass in doors, etc.
Listing NGR: SJ8632399776
