Princes Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 1974. Shops and offices. 1 related planning application.
Princes Buildings
- WRENN ID
- worn-pilaster-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 1974
- Type
- Shops and offices
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NE OXFORD STREET 698-1/31/264 (West side) 04/04/74 Nos.18,20,24-28 (Even) Princes Buildings
GV II
Shops and offices, entirely rebuilt late C20 except the facade. 1903, by I.R.E.Birkett. Pale buff brick with dressings of matching terracotta. Art Nouveau style. Four storeys and 8 bays, with attic (except over 8th bay). Facade dominated by exuberant attic which has 5 bays of 3- and 2-light windows with semi-circular sunk parapets forming an undulating line punctuated by 8 tall chimneys, and elaborate open balustrades in the 1st and 7th bays. Otherwise, the ground floor has a round-headed archway to the 1st bay, shallow segmental-headed arches to the 7th and 8th, and square-headed openings in the others, mostly with arched glazing, and with Art Nouveau decoration on the piers between; the 1st and 7th bays have giant 3-storey segmental arches containing 2-storey canted oriels, the intermediate bays have 2-light windows and Lombard friezes, the 8th bay has 4-light windows to the 1st and 2nd floors with dropped sills to the centre lights, and all windows have surrounds with elaborate terracotta enrichment.
Listing NGR: SJ8396097776
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