Old Exchange is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
Old Exchange
- WRENN ID
- sheer-pillar-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE KING STREET 698-1/27/182 (North side) 03/10/74 Nos.29 AND 31 Old Exchange
GV II
Includes: Nos.5, 6 AND 7 ST ANN'S PASSAGE. Range of shops with passage through. Dated 1897 on frieze over ground floor; altered. Probably iron-framed, with cladding of red sandstone and terracotta, slated mansard roof. Rectangular plan with central through-passage. Eclectic style. Three storeys and attics, 3 structural bays; with pilastered piers to ground floor (those to left altered), frieze lettered "AD / OLD EXCHANGE / 1897" and cornice, C20 shop fronts; giant Ionic pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors, ornamental terracotta panels between 1st and 2nd floors, bracketed frieze and moulded main cornice with low parapet, 4 moulded lateral chimney stacks and 4 symmetrically disposed segmental-pedimented dormers in the roof. The 1st floor has wide elliptical-arched windows (one in the 1st bay and 2 in each of the others), with decorated spandrels and wooden mullion-and-transom glazing; the 2nd floor has mullioned windows with segemental-headed lights (3 in the 1st bay, 2+2 in the 2nd bay, and 3+3 in the 3rd bay).
Listing NGR: SJ8377198321
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