No. 48, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Shop. 7 related planning applications.

No. 48, King Street

WRENN ID
ancient-corridor-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Shop
Address
No. 48, King Street, M2 4LG
OS grid reference
SJ 837 982
Coordinates
53.48107, -2.24592
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 48 on King Street is a shop built around 1860-1880, which has been altered over time. It features red brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, with a narrow rectangular plan positioned at right angles to the street. The building is designed in a Gothic style and has three storeys with three narrow bays. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front framed by original columns that have crocket caps and enablatures, along with a moulded frieze. The upper floors are adorned with brick corner pilasters and a panelled band between the floors. There is a moulded main cornice that is broken in the centre by a large two-centred arch that rises into a steeply-pitched gable, which extends above the parapet. Each floor has sashed windows of one, three, and one lights, with transoms on the second floor. Additionally, there is a prominent stone balcony at the centre of each floor, featuring bowed wrought-iron railings, and a carved stone tympanum above the centre windows on the second floor.

Local climate

No. 48, King 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 7 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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