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Latitude: 53.4694 / 53°28'9"N
Longitude: -2.2387 / 2°14'19"W
OS Eastings: 384251
OS Northings: 396984
OS Grid: SJ842969
Mapcode National: GBR DKM.YB
Mapcode Global: WHB9N.L254
Plus Code: 9C5VFQ96+PG
Entry Name: Righton Building
Listing Date: 11 June 1991
Last Amended: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197781
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387974
ID on this website: 101197781
Location: University, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M15
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Hulme
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Hulme The Ascension
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
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MANCHESTER
SJ8497 CAVENDISH STREET
698-1/20/591 (South side)
11/06/91 Chorlton-On-Medlock
Righton Building
GV II
Formerly known as: Cavendish House CAVENDISH STREET
Chorlton-On-Medlock.
Draper's shop and showrooms, now annex to school of art. 1905,
altered. White glazed brick and buff terracotta, slate and
glass roof. Rectangular plan on corner site, with chamfered
corner. Two storeys over cellars, 5 windows to Cavendish
Street plus the corner to the left; ground floor altered;
terracotta sill-band, frieze, cornice and shaped parapet, the
centre arched with a finial and displaying a banner with
raised lettering "A.D. RIGHTON 1905"; transomed canted oriel
windows of 8 lights to the centre and 6 lights to the outer
bays and the corner. Left return side (to Higher Ormond
Street), 11 bays, the first 5 altered at ground floor as the
front, the next 3 with oval windows at ground floor, and the
last 3 with oriel windows and a doorway, all with a plain
frieze and dentilled cornice, and at 1st floor canted 8-light
oriels alternating with transomed 6-light windows, a
segmental-arched upstand to the parapet over each of the
latter, with moulded terracotta decoration. Interior: central
atrium with gallery of superimposed cast-iron columns, the
lower with open-work brackets forming elliptical arches and
the upper with Corinthian capitals supporting a panelled
frieze, with set-back glazed screen walls to both floors, Art
Nouveau wrought-iron balustrades to the gallery, and a glazed
roof supported by slender iron trusses with open-work
spandrels.
Listing NGR: SJ8425196984
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