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SK0394 HENRY STREET
921-1/10/24 (South side)
27/01/78 Partington Theatre
(Formerly Listed as:
NORFOLK SQUARE
(East side)
Partington Social Club)

GV II

Includes: Partington Theatre NORFOLK SQUARE.
Liberal club, now theatre. 1914. By Paul Ogden. Ashlar with
ashlar dressings and brick to rear. Stone slate roof. End and
ridge stacks with alternating plain and barley sugar shafts.
Corner site.
EXTERIOR: 3 storey with basement. Moulded sill and lintel
bands to most windows. Cornice and arcaded parapet with ball
finials and moulded sill bands to both principal fronts.
Entrance front to Henry Street 3 storey topped with large end
stack recessed behind parapet. Asymmetrical 4 window front.
Recessed segment headed doorway to left with double plank
doors and ornate iron hinges and 2 large console brackets
supporting balcony with parapet. To right single light window
with transom and beyond two 3-light cross mullion windows.
Above 4 cross mullion windows arranged 3:1:3:3, that to left
with balcony. Above again central round headed niche in
moulded surround with flat hood.
Norfolk Square front has irregular 7 window range, all 3-light
cross mullion windows, those to the upper floor right taller.
Off-centre doorway at basement level with double plank doors
and ornate iron hinges, to right 2 windows and to left 4
windows. Above five 9-pane cross mullion windows, with to
right 2 smaller 6-pane windows one above the other then
corbelled balcony with arcaded entrance and canted hood. Top
floor has 7 tall 12-pane cross mullion windows and 2 similar
9-pane windows to right. Front divided by recessed downpipe
with hopper.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Williamson E: Derbyshire:
London: 1986-: 219).

Listing NGR: SK0344994107

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Partington Theatre official website
• Wikidata Q26664098

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