Old Exchange is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
Old Exchange
- WRENN ID
- sheer-pillar-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Old Exchange, 29 and 31, King Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 837 983
- Coordinates
- 53.48134, -2.246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Exchange is a range of shops located on King Street in Manchester, dated 1897 on the frieze above the ground floor. The building has been altered and is likely iron-framed, featuring cladding of red sandstone and terracotta, topped with a slated mansard roof. It has a rectangular plan with a central through-passage and is designed in an eclectic style.
The structure consists of three storeys and attics, divided into three structural bays. The ground floor has pilastered piers, although those on the left have been altered. The frieze is inscribed with "AD / OLD EXCHANGE / 1897" and is topped with a cornice. The ground floor features 20th-century shop fronts, while the first and second floors are adorned with giant Ionic pilasters and ornamental terracotta panels between them. There is a bracketed frieze and a moulded main cornice with a low parapet. The roof includes four moulded lateral chimney stacks and four symmetrically placed segmental-pedimented dormers.
On the first floor, there are wide elliptical-arched windows, with one in the first bay and two in each of the others, featuring decorated spandrels and wooden mullion-and-transom glazing. The second floor has mullioned windows with segmental-headed lights, arranged as three in the first bay, two plus two in the second bay, and three plus three in the third bay. The building also includes Nos. 5, 6, and 7 St Ann's Passage.
Local climate
Old Exchange 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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