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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Telephone exchange
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/05/2017
SJ 8498 SW, 698-1/28/446
MANCHESTER, New York Street (south side), No. 5, Telephone Buildings
(Formerly Listed as: YORK STREET (South side), No.26 Telephone Buildings)
20/06/88
II
Former telephone exchange. 1909, by L. Stokes and Beaumont. Red brick; cream faience dressings and banding; blue brick bands to quoins; granite basement; leaded roof. Rectangular plan. Three storeys with basement and attic, five bays to New York Street; central segmental-headed entrance with paired wooden doors; square-headed windows, paired in the outer bays and triple in the other bays, and a canted oriel in the centre bay rising through 1st and 2nd floors, all these windows with flush faience mullions; diamond-pattern panels below 1st-floor windows. Faience console cornice above 2nd floor; square-headed windows to attic, with moulded surrounds, and Diocletian window in centre. Six chimneys rising between the bays and linked in pairs at roof level. Eaves gutter and subsidiary cornice. Left and right-hand return sides similar.
Listing NGR: SJ8424098124
Detailed Attributes
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