Lionesse House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Warehouse. 7 related planning applications.
Lionesse House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-terrace-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Lionesse House, 54 and 56, Princess Street, M1 6HS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 842 977
- Coordinates
- 53.47618, -2.23895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lionesse House is a building that was originally constructed as shipping warehouses around 1880-1890 and is now used for a bank and offices. It features red brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The building has an almost rectangular shape, situated on an island site parallel to the street, with a canted corner at No.54. It stands four storeys tall with basements and attics, comprising eight bays, each with two windows, plus the canted corner which has one window on each side.
The ground floor is distinguished by an arcaded design featuring round-headed arches with keystones and linked hoodmoulds. There is a round-headed doorway in the fourth bay with a pilastered surround that includes a keystone, carved spandrels, and a cornice on brackets. An inserted doorway is located in the sixth bay, while the other bays have windows with altered glazing. The upper floors are characterized by shallow rectangular two-storey oriels in alternate bays, complete with pilasters and balustraded parapets, and square-headed windows throughout, all featuring stone lintels and sash windows without glazing bars.
The building has a mansard roof with low flat-roofed dormers and a slated pyramidal turret-roof at the right-hand corner. The right-hand return side is simpler, but it includes two pedimented attic dormers. Lionesse House is part of an uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings along this side of Princess Street.
Local climate
Lionesse House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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