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Estate Exchange

A Grade II* Listed Building in City Centre, Manchester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4806 / 53°28'50"N

Longitude: -2.2411 / 2°14'28"W

OS Eastings: 384094

OS Northings: 398236

OS Grid: SJ840982

Mapcode National: GBR DKH.D9

Mapcode Global: WHB9G.KS02

Plus Code: 9C5VFQJ5+6G

Entry Name: Estate Exchange

Listing Date: 3 October 1974

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1200835

English Heritage Legacy ID: 388137

ID on this website: 101200835

Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2

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 St Ann

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

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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

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