ANGLIA HOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197768
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Statutory Address:
- ANGLIA HOUSE, CROSS STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- ANGLIA HOUSE, CROSS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ8382098211
Details
SJ8398SE
698-1/27/76
03/10/74
MANCHESTER
CROSS STREET
(West side)
No.86
Anglia House
II
GV
Insurance office. 1906, by Charles Heathcote. Brown polished
granite to ground floor, red sandstone ashlar above, lead clad
roofs. Narrow rectangular plan on end-of-block site, with
canted corner. Free Baroque style. Three storeys and attic, a
1:3:1-bay facade to Cross Street and 1-bay facade to John
Dalton Street hinged on a canted corner with turret; Ionic
colonnaded ground floor with doorways at the corner and in the
4th bay and shop windows in the others, all under a pulvinated
frieze and prominent cornice; upper floors with heavily
moulded cornice pierced by projected outer bays which have
banded pilasters and emphatic steeply-pitched attic pediments,
2-light casements at 1st floor with broken pediments, coupled
12-pane sashes at 2nd floor, and round-headed casements at
attic level with radiating glazing bars; otherwise, casement
windows at 1st floor with enriched architraves, and sashed
windows at 2nd floor recessed behind a screen with coupled
colonnettes; flat-roofed dormer over centre with casement
windows. Cylindrical Baroque turret over corner, with banded
pilasters, prominent cornice, a round-headed window with open
pediment on colonnetes, and ogival domed roof with consoles
over the pilasters. Tall corniced chimneys. Facade to John
Dalton Street matching the pedimented bays to Cross Street.
Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ 83820 98211
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388048
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
