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Latitude: 53.4811 / 53°28'52"N
Longitude: -2.2351 / 2°14'6"W
OS Eastings: 384492
OS Northings: 398293
OS Grid: SJ844982
Mapcode National: GBR DLH.P3
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.MRVN
Plus Code: 9C5VFQJ7+FW
Entry Name: 49 Piccadilly
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1246670
English Heritage Legacy ID: 455657
ID on this website: 101246670
Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1
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 Cathedral
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
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SJ 8498 SW
698-1/28/286
MANCHESTER,
PICCADILLY (north side),
No. 49
GV
II
Clothiers' warehouse, now offices with public house at ground floor. 1846 to 1847. For JP and E Westhead, rebuilt after a fire of 1850, with mansard roof added between 1886 and 1917. Occupied in 1917 by Chorlton Brothers, clothiers.
Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Deep rectangular plan. Simplified palazzo style. Five storeys and attic, a seven window facade, symmetrical, with rusticated quoins, plain frieze, modillioned cornice, brick parapet with stone pilasters and chimneys, large attic dormer. Ground floor altered except for square-headed doorway to right with enriched surround; very regular fenestration to upper floors, all windows of equal height and with moulded architraves, those at first and second floor shouldered, the lower with aprons and pediments (that in the centre swan-necked) and the upper with cornices (except that in the centre which is pedimented), and those at third floor eared (that in the centre with a segmental open pediment); altered glazing to first floor, eight-pane casements to the upper floors. Full-width glazed dormer in slope of roof, with three-span hipped roof.
Rear and interior not inspected.
Forms group with No.47 to left (q.v.), and with Nos 51 and 53, 55 and 57, and 59 and 61 to right (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8449298293
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