Telephone Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Telephone exchange. 1 related planning application.
Telephone Buildings
- WRENN ID
- muffled-storey-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Telephone exchange
- Address
- Telephone Buildings, 5, New York Street, M1 4JB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 842 981
- Coordinates
- 53.47962, -2.23894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Telephone Buildings, located at 5 New York Street in Manchester, is a former telephone exchange built in 1909 by L. Stokes and Beaumont. The building features a red brick exterior with cream faience dressings and banding, blue brick bands at the quoins, and a granite basement. It has a leaded roof and a rectangular plan, standing three storeys tall with a basement and attic.
The façade facing New York Street consists of five bays, with a central entrance that has a segmental arch and paired wooden doors. The windows are square-headed, with pairs in the outer bays and triples in the other bays. The central bay features a canted oriel that extends through the first and second floors, all windows adorned with flush faience mullions. Below the first-floor windows, there are diamond-pattern panels.
Above the second floor, there is a faience console cornice, and the attic has square-headed windows with moulded surrounds, including a Diocletian window in the centre. The building is topped with six chimneys that rise between the bays and are linked in pairs at the roof level. The eaves gutter is complemented by a subsidiary cornice. The left and right-hand return sides of the building are similar in design.
Local climate
Telephone Buildings 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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