Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SE NEWTON STREET
698-1/29/253 (South East side)
20/06/88 No.50
Newton Buildings

GV II

Hat manufacturers' premises. c.1900, altered. Iron frame and
concrete floors, with cladding of ashlar, and red brick with
buff terracotta dressings, slate roof. Trapezoidal plan on
end-of-block site parallel to Hilton Street. Free baroque
style. Basement and 4 storeys plus full attic storey and
mansard attic; distinguished by 3-storey giant arcades above
ground floor, 2 bays to Newton Street, 5 bays to Hilton Street
and 3 bays to Port Street; with cornices over ground and 3rd
floors. The Newton street facade has a round-headed doorway to
the right, with an architrave including 2 columns and a large
segmental pediment; the ground floor of all 3 sides has wide
rectangular windows with keyed lintels; the arcaded upper
floors have wide round-headed arches with quoined surrounds
and keystones, most filled by original glazed screens with
wooden frames and metal glazing bars making panes of varied
size, the windows of the 1st and 2nd floors including floating
segmental pediments; but the 2nd and 4th bays to Hilton Street
with 2-storey canted oriels enriched with swags etc. The attic
storey has coupled windows except to Newton Street, which has
a large segmental open-pedimented dormer with a round-headed
window, the mansard to Hilton Street has dormers with
segmental pediments. Interior said to have segmental
barrel-vaulted construction.

Listing NGR: SJ8466198366

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 50 Newton Street at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4639875

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Recommended Books

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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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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)