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Latitude: 53.4778 / 53°28'40"N
Longitude: -2.241 / 2°14'27"W
OS Eastings: 384103
OS Northings: 397922
OS Grid: SJ841979
Mapcode National: GBR DKJ.F9
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.KV27
Plus Code: 9C5VFQH5+4J
Entry Name: 34, Princess Street
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1247383
English Heritage Legacy ID: 456825
ID on this website: 101247383
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
698-1/32/326 (South West side)
No.34
GV II
Shipping and packing warehouses, now shops and offices.
c.1870-80, altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of red
brick, sandstone dressings, slate roof. Rectangular plan on
end-of-block site, with chamfered corners. Eclectic style with
Gothic features. Five storeys over basement, 5 bays plus the
corners, symmetrical; with punch-dressed plinth, ashlar ground
floor with cornice, bands between floors, 2nd and 4th bays
framed by semi-octagonal brick pilasters which terminate in
stone pinnacles to steeply-pitched gables, tall clustered
chimneys rising from inner corners of gables, and
steeply-pitched roof. Chamfered piers to ground floor,
2-centred arched doorway with deeply moulded enrichment and
carved crocketed gablet; sloped basement windows now painted
white, square windows to ground floor, sashed windows without
glazing bars to all upper floors, all with stone surrounds,
those in the 3 centre bays coupled, and those at 3rd floor
2-centred arched; blank arches in the gables, with multifoil
enrichment. Left return side (to Faulkner Street) similar,
right-hand return simpler. Forms part of uniterrupted linear
group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8410397922
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