Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/11/2017

SJ8398SE
698-1/27/195

MANCHESTER
KING STREET (south side),
Nos. 84 and 86

(Formerly listed as National and Provincial Building Society)

03/10/74

GV
II
Includes: Nos.27 AND 29 PALL MALL.

Office building. c.1910, altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of sandstone ashlar (roof not visible). Rectangular plan on end-of-block site. Classical style.

Three storeys and five bays, symmetrical; channelled rustication to ground floor, which has an arcade of round-headed arches on piers with moulded imposts, the right-hand arch being the entry to a diagonal internal porch (running through to Pall Mall) and the others all plate-glass windows; giant pilasters to the upper floors, which have sashed windows with moulded architraves; frieze with wreaths over the four central pilasters; moulded cornice, and parapet with two rectangular corniced upstands.

Listing NGR: SJ8394298249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492381

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)