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Latitude: 53.4764 / 53°28'35"N
Longitude: -2.2394 / 2°14'21"W
OS Eastings: 384205
OS Northings: 397772
OS Grid: SJ842977
Mapcode National: GBR DKJ.SS
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.KWT8
Plus Code: 9C5VFQG6+H6
Entry Name: Rhodesia House
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270911
English Heritage Legacy ID: 456829
ID on this website: 101270911
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
Tagged with: House
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/330 (South West side)
No.52
Rhodesia House
GV II
Includes: No.102 Rhodesia House BLOOM STREET.
Various packing warehouses. c.1880-90. Red brick with
sandstone dressings, slate roof. Trapeziform plan on island
site. Eclectic style. Four storeys with basements and attics,
3 bays plus chamfered corners, symmetrical; punch-dressed
stone plinth, string-course and cornice over ground floor,
pairs of string-courses between floors, moulded main cornice
with brick parapet, attic above this with 2 large pedimented
gables, steeply-pitched hipped roof with corner finials. The
ground floor has a round-headed doorway with brick pilasters,
carved capitals, moulded stone head with carved enrichments
including keystone and swags and flanked by pairs of moulded
brackets to the cornice above; coupled round-headed windows
each side, with hoodmoulds and keystones (boarded at time of
survey); upper floors have coupled sashed windows to the
centre and tiered segmental bay windows of stone in the outer
bays, with curved 3-light sashes and panels between floors
decorated with swags. The attic dormers have pilasters,
3-light windows, and triangular pediments with stone surrounds
flanked by short square chimneys. The corners have
round-headed windows at ground floor, square-headed above.
Nine-bay return wall, in similar style, including one bay with
segmental bay windows and pedimented gable, and coupled
loading bay doorways. Interior not inspected. Forms part of
uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side
of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8420597772
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