Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/331 (South West side)
Nos.54 AND 56
Lionesse House

GV II

Shipping warehouses, now bank, offices, etc. c.1880-90. Red
brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Almost rectangular
plan on island site parallel to street, with canted corner to
No.54. Four storeys with basements and attics, 8 bays with 2
windows per bay, plus the canted corner which has one window
in each face; with punch-dressed stone plinth, cornice over
ground floor, string-courses and sill-bands to all upper
floors, moulded cornice and parapet (No.54 brick, and No.56
stone with short brick chimneys). Arcaded ground floor of
round-headed arches with keystones and linked hoodmoulds,
round-headed doorway to 4th bay with pilastered surround
including keystone, carved spandrels and cornice on brackets,
inserted doorway to 6th bay, windows with altered glazing in
the other bays. Upper floors have shallow rectangular 2-storey
oriels in alternate bays, with pilasters and balustraded
parapets, and square-headed windows throughout, all with stone
lintels and all sashed windows without glazing bars. Mansard
roof with low flat-roofed dormers, slated pyramidal
turret-roof to right-hand corner. Right-hand return side
simpler, but with 2 pedimented attic dormers. Forms part of
uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side
of Princess Street.

Listing NGR: SJ8423897742

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539706

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)