Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE KING STREET
698-1/27/190 (South side)
03/10/74 No.62

GV II

Shop. Late C19, altered. Painted stone and stucco, hipped
slate roof with central gable. Rectangular plan at
right-angles to street. Three storeys and attic, symmetrical,
with a wide gabled centre and very narrow side bays, 1:3:1
windows at 1st floor. The ground floor has an original (or
restored) 3-bay shop-front with central entrance and flanking
windows framed by slender columns and wide simple tracery
forming arched heads to the openings with dagger spandrels;
the 1st floor has 3 windows to the centre with ogee cresting
and tall poppy-head finials rising into enriched panels; the
2nd floor has windows with rounded corners; the 3rd floor has
a false balcony of stone pierced with quatrefoils and a large
2-centred arched window of 3 cusped lights with fleur-de-lys
blind tracery in the head, surmounted by a gable with
inverted-sword motif (the point which formerly provided the
finial now missing). Narrow windows to the outer bays;
cartouches with escutcheons at 2nd floor.

Listing NGR: SJ8381298279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513717

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)