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Latitude: 53.4811 / 53°28'51"N
Longitude: -2.2466 / 2°14'47"W
OS Eastings: 383733
OS Northings: 398293
OS Grid: SJ837982
Mapcode National: GBR DJH.73
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.GRFP
Plus Code: 9C5VFQJ3+C9
Entry Name: 28, King Street
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282984
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388234
Also known as: Laura Ashley Shop
Mint Velvet Shop
ID on this website: 101282984
Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2
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: Shop
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/11/2017
SJ 8398 SE
698-1/27/181
MANCHESTER
KING STREET (south side),
No. 28
(Formerly listed as Laura Ashley shop)
GV
II
Shop. Later C19, altered. Painted stucco on brick, slate roof. Narrow rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Three storeys and attic with five-light window at first floor. Double-fronted shop front at ground floor (probably C20); continuous arcaded fenestration to both upper floors, with round-headed arched lights at first floor, square-headed at second floor, both sets of windows set back behind delicate screens of slender cast-iron columns, those at first floor with ornamented open-work spandrels and those at second floor with tendril-like arch-bracing to the head. Prominent dentilled and modillioned cornice over second floor; three-window attic storey with central round-headed two-light window in architrave with segmental open pediment, flanked by square windows under corbel-tables.
Forms group with No. 30 to the left (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8373398293
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