Victoria Station Including Concourse To Rear With Restaurant And Booking Hall

MANCHESTER

SJ8398NE VICTORIA STATION APPROACH 698-1/26/425 (North East side) 20/06/88 Victoria Station including concourse to rear with restaurant and booking hall (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA STATION APPROACH Canopy at front of Victoria Station)

GV II

Railway station. Original block to Hunt's Bank Approach, 1844, for the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company (also used by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company), altered and greatly enlarged 1909 by William Dawes for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company; altered. Sandstone ashlar office blocks with slate roofs; cast-iron train sheds with slate and glazed roofs. Office blocks form L-plan, the original building on a north-east/south-west axis, and the much larger addition at right-angles to its north end. 1844 block in Italianate manner, now 2 storeys (originally one storey) and 7 bays wide, with square-headed doorways to left and right, arcaded windows to both floors of the centre, other windows with architraves and cornices. 1909 block in neo-Baroque style, 4 storeys and 31 bays plus rounded corner at south-east end; with channelled rustication to ground and 1st floors, pilasters to 2nd and 3rd floors, moulded cornice, and balustraded parapet interrupted by wide segmental open pediments over the 2nd, 6th, 19th and 29th bays, and upstands with clocks over the 4th bay and the curved corner. Round-headed windows and doorways to ground floor protected by delicate iron and glass canopy displaying names of one-time destinations in Art Nouveau lettering; windows to upper floors mostly square-headed and mullioned, but including oriels at 2nd and Venetian windows at 3rd floor of the pedimented bays. Fine surviving interiors to this part, including panelled booking hall, restaurant with stained glass dome and mosaic lettering, bookstall with mosaic decoration, map of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway system in tilework, etc.

Listing NGR: SJ8387298995