Former Grosvenor Picture Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Cinema. 1 related planning application.
Former Grosvenor Picture Palace
- WRENN ID
- keen-merlon-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Cinema
- Address
- Former Grosvenor Picture Palace, Grosvenor Street, M1 7DZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 843 970
- Coordinates
- 53.47012, -2.2367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Grosvenor Picture Palace is a cinema that has been converted into a snooker club. Built in 1912, it has undergone some alterations. The building features green and white faience tiles and a slate roof, with a rectangular plan situated on a corner site that has a chamfered corner. It consists of two storeys plus a corner pavilion and a small attic. The Grosvenor Street facade has four bays, while the Oxford Road facade has six bays, both hinged on a wide three-bay canted corner topped by the pavilion.
The ground floor is covered in channelled green tiling and is protected by a flat metal and glass canopy suspended on metal ties. The Oxford Road facade is adorned with green Ionic pilasters, while the corner features channelled green pilasters and the Grosvenor Street facade has white pilasters. All facades have a green frieze and cornice, with a white parapet and a four-bay attic on Grosvenor Street, along with upstands over the centre and right-hand end of the Oxford Road facade.
The corner entrance has a three-bay design with Ionic columns arranged distyle in antis, although it is now partially obscured by the canopy. Above the entrance, there is a large panel with raised lettering stating "THE GROSVENOR PICTURE PALACE," flanked by swagged roundels. The three-bay open-fronted pavilion features coupled Ionic columns, geometrical metal railings, a cornice, a balustraded parapet, and a domed roof. The Oxford Road facade includes panels with green aprons and keyed oculi, while the Grosvenor Street facade is less regular.
Inside, the building has glazed tiling and geometrical banding on the stairs. The auditorium has been altered with the addition of a suspended ceiling, but much of the original decoration remains, including a gallery with moulded cartouches, swags, and raised panels. It is noted that this cinema was said to be the largest outside London at the time of its opening.
Local climate
Former Grosvenor Picture Palace 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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