List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: No name for this Entry
List Entry Number: 1247391
Location
103, PRINCESS STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Manchester
District Type: Metropolitan Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 11-May-1972
Date of most recent amendment: 06-Jun-1994
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 456840
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET
698-1/32/341 (North East side)
11/05/72 No.103
(Formerly Listed as:
PRINCESS STREET
(East side)
No.103
Municipal High School of Commerce)
GV II*
Mechanics' Institute, now museum. 1854, by J.E.Gregan; altered
and internally remodelled. Red brick in Flemish bond with
sandstone dressings (roof not visible). Irregular plan within
a parallelogram, on an island site. Italian palazzo style.
Three storeys with cellar and added attic, 7 bays,
symmetrical; stone plinth, sill-bands to all floors, plain
frieze, modillioned cornice, high pilastered parapet
disguising added attic. Central round-headed doorway with
moulded stone surround and very prominent cornice on consoles;
tall 4-pane sashed windows to all floors, all with moulded
architraves, those at ground floor with cornices, aprons, and
raised sills on large brackets, and those at 1st floor with
segmental pediments on consoles, and blind-balustraded aprons
linked by a band. Left return wall has one bay in matching
style, with a lettered plaque near the front corner, and then
breaks forwards, the further portion having a large tripartite
window on each floor, both with stone surrounds but the upper
larger and with round-headed lights. History: the first Trades
Union Congress was held in this building.
Listing NGR: SJ8422697827
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Map
National Grid Reference: SJ 84226 97827
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