Nos. 1-7 Princess Street, Nos. 59 and 61, Cross Street is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Shop, office. 5 related planning applications.
Nos. 1-7 Princess Street, Nos. 59 and 61, Cross Street
- WRENN ID
- distant-belfry-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Shop, office
- Address
- Nos. 1-7 Princess Street, Nos. 59 and 61, Cross Street, M2 4JW
- OS grid reference
- SJ 838 982
- Coordinates
- 53.48029, -2.24486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1-7 Princess Street and Nos. 59 and 61 Cross Street are shops and offices built in 1877 by Pennington and Bridgen, with some alterations. The building is made of red brick with sandstone dressings and features a red tiled roof. It has a curved trapeziform plan, situated on an end-of-block site, and is designed in the Gothic style. The structure rises four storeys with an attic and includes eight windows, with prominent features on the corner and along Cross Street.
The ground floor has a stone base and frieze adorned with Tudor-flower and grotesque ornamentation. Slender chamfered shafts of brick and stone lead up to large gables on each main facade, with two smaller gables over the corner, all topped with tourelles and finials. These are connected by open-work parapets, and there is a stone spirelet at the end of the Cross Street facade. The roof is steeply pitched, featuring small hipped dormers and large clustered chimneys.
On the ground floor, each facade has two wide elliptical-arched windows with moulded heads, and a 2-centred arched doorway to the left of the Princess Street facade, which includes carved enrichment and a traceried overlight. The corner has 20th-century shopfronts inserted. The first and second floors showcase tiered mullion-and-transom windows in the gabled bays, with canted windows in the main facades and bowed windows at the corner. These are separated by terracotta traceried panels and elaborately traceried open-work parapets. The third floor primarily features 2-light windows with Gothic detailing, including two in the Princess Street facade that have carved stone gablets. The gables are adorned with 2-centred arched windows that include tracery.
Local climate
Nos. 1-7 Princess Street, Nos. 59 and 61, Cross Street 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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