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Latitude: 53.4779 / 53°28'40"N
Longitude: -2.2412 / 2°14'28"W
OS Eastings: 384089
OS Northings: 397938
OS Grid: SJ840979
Mapcode National: GBR DKJ.D8
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.JVZ3
Plus Code: 9C5VFQH5+5G
Entry Name: 26-30, Princess Street
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1246961
English Heritage Legacy ID: 456072
ID on this website: 101246961
Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1
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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MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/324 (South West side)
Nos.26 TO 30 (Even)
GV II
Offices and warehouses, now variously occupied. c.1870-80,
altered. Sandstone ashlar ground floor, blood-red brick with
sandstone dressings above, steeply-pitched hipped slate roof.
Rectangular plan on end-of-block site (now island), with
chamfered corners, loading bay at rear. Eclectic style. Four
storeys over basement, a 14-window facade, symmetrical, the
windows grouped 1:2:3:3:2:1, plus 3-light corner oriels; with
high chamfered plinth and plain frieze to ground floor, brick
pilasters to the 2-window bays terminating in tall pilastered
chimneys (treated as pinnacles), heavy bracketed cornice over
2nd floor, small cornice and brick parapet over 3rd floor. The
2-window bays have coupled round-headed doorways (the 4th
altered as window) with much enrichment, including colonnettes
with carved caps supporting large elaborate consoles to
stilted open pediments which contain carved keystones and
swags; the corners have square-headed doorways each with 2
semicircular overlights flanking the corbel of a cylindrical
2-storey oriel above. The windows are sashed without glazing
bars, those of 2 and 3 lights with stone mullions (except at
3rd floor) and those of the 2-window bays with stone panels
between the floors. Returned sides similar. Forms part of
uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side
of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8408997938
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