Description

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SJ8397
698-1/19/56

MANCHESTER
CHESTER ROAD (South side)
Bridgewater Canal Offices

03/10/74

II

Officers' Mess of Manchester Regiment, subsequently Bridgewater Canal offices, now ..? c.1800; altered. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. L-plan. Georgian style. Two storeys, ten bays in all but designed to resemble two symmetrical five-bay houses, each with a three-bay pedimented centre breaking forwards very slightly; with a rendered plinth, first-floor sill-band, modillioned wooden eaves cornice and coped gables; 12-pane sashed windows with flat-arched heads. Two chimneys in the centre (either side of ridge). Single-storey one-bay extension at left end, which is side of porch, the front of which has a moulded stone doorcase with rectangular overlight and cornice. Rear fronting Crown Street (to west) has sashed windows in arched reveals, and two arched doorways.

Listing NGR: SJ8319097355

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571958

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version