Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW FOUNTAIN STREET
698-1/28/137 (West side)
03/10/74 No.46
Estate Exchange

II*

Overseers' and Churchwardens' office, now commercial offices.
1852, raised 1858, both by Thomas Worthington; altered. Red
brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan.
Italian palazzo style. Three-storey 4-window facade with
basement and attic (top 2 floors added 1858), with channelled
corner pilasters, stone basement, sill-bands to all floors,
stone attic storey, very prominent modillioned cornice, and
pierced parapet with corner chimneys of brick; round-headed
doorway to the right, with panelled architrave and cornice,
recessed porch with internal steps; 3 cross-windows at ground
floor with panelled jambs and cornices; 4 cross-windows at 1st
floor with moulded architraves and pediments on consoles (4th
window displaced slightly to the right, aligned over the
door); 7-bay arcade of round-headed arched windows at 2nd
floor including a central coved niche with shell canopy; 7
oeil-de-boeuf attic windows. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8409498236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Estate Exchange at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5400658

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)