Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/01/2018

SJ 8398 SE,
698-1/27/187

MANCHESTER,
KING STREET (south side),
No. 48

(Formerly Listed as: Alliance and Leicester office)

03/10/74

GV

II

Shop. c.1860-80, altered. Red brick with sandstone dressings
and slate roof. Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to
street. Gothic style. Three storeys and three narrow bays. C20
shop front at ground floor framed by original columns with
crocket caps and enablatures, and moulded frieze. The upper
floors have brick corner pilasters, a panelled band between
floors, moulded main cornice broken in the centre by a large
2-centred arch rising into a steeply-pitched gable which
breaks through the parapet; sashed windows of one, three and one
lights on each floor, those at second floor with transoms, a
prominent stone balcony in the centre of each floor with bowed
wrought-iron railings, and a carved stone tympanum over the
centre windows at second floor.

Listing NGR: SJ8377798287

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492378

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)