Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571887

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