29, Swan Street is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1989. Shop. 5 related planning applications.

29, Swan Street

WRENN ID
leaning-storey-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1989
Type
Shop
Address
29, Swan Street, M4 5JZ
OS grid reference
SJ 845 987
Coordinates
53.48524, -2.23437
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

29 Swan Street is a shop with former offices above, now used for storage. It was built around 1865, and the architect is not known. The building features red brick banding and sandstone dressings, topped with a hipped slate roof in the Ruskinian Gothic style. It stands three storeys tall and has an asymmetrical design with a 1:3 window arrangement. The first bay is gabled and slightly set back, featuring a sawtooth still-band at the first floor and an oversailing parapet with carved foliated sandstone bands.

The ground floor includes a shop front with panelled pilasters on either end, a panelled door to the left with a square overlight, and plate-glass shop windows separated by slender glazing posts. The first and second floors of the main range have arcaded windows with polychrome heads. The first-floor windows have shouldered openings, carved crocketed caps, and two-centered arched relieving arches, while the second-floor windows feature segmental-pointed heads. The set-back bay to the left has a first-floor oriel, and above it is a segmental-pointed window in a steeply-pitched gablet that breaks through a tall parapet, displaying the monogram "M&K" at the apex. The building has steeply-pitched roofs, with a tall side chimney on the left and a cut-down chimney at the junction of the ranges.

Local climate

29, Swan Street sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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