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Latitude: 53.4813 / 53°28'52"N
Longitude: -2.2341 / 2°14'2"W
OS Eastings: 384562
OS Northings: 398307
OS Grid: SJ845983
Mapcode National: GBR DLH.X2
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.NRCK
Plus Code: 9C5VFQJ8+G9
Entry Name: Kingsley House
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1271451
English Heritage Legacy ID: 454809
ID on this website: 101271451
Location: Ancoats, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: City Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester Cathedral
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: House
MANCHESTER
SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET
698-1/29/249 (North West side)
Nos.13 AND 15
Kingsley House
GV II
Garment warehouses and workshops. Late C19. Red brick in
Flemish bond, with sandstone ashlar plinth and dressings,
slate roof with skylghts. Rectangular plan. Basement and 3
storeys plus 2 attic storeys; 5 bays between curved corners,
with a high moulded plinth, a frieze and cornice to the ground
floor, a prominent bracketed cornice over the 2nd floor, attic
treated as a high parapet and mansard roof with skylight attic
windows. The ground floor, treated in C18 style, has a doorway
in the 2nd bay with an architrave including a swag on the
frieze and an open pediment in the cornice; and windows with
simpler architraves (those at the corners curved); the upper
floors and parapet attic (which are astylar), have coupled
windows in the 3 centre bays and single windows in the other
bays, all with stone sills and heads and all sashed (mostly
without glazing bars, and those at the corners curved).
Chimneys on the parapet above the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 6th
piers. Irregular skylight fenestration. The return walls have
2 bays in matching style, that to the left has 2 bays of
staggered windows beyond, and that to the right has inter alia
a square turret on the roof, with a pyramidal roof. History:
occupied c.1905 by mantle and costume manufacturers, with
workrooms on the 4th and 5th floors.
Listing NGR: SJ8456298307
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