Latitude: 53.4762 / 53°28'34"N
Longitude: -2.2389 / 2°14'20"W
OS Eastings: 384238
OS Northings: 397742
OS Grid: SJ842977
Mapcode National: GBR DKJ.WW
Mapcode Global: WHB9G.LW1G
Plus Code: 9C5VFQG6+FC
Entry Name: Lionesse House
Listing Date: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1247387
English Heritage Legacy ID: 456830
ID on this website: 101247387
Location: City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: City Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Manchester St Ann
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: House
MANCHESTER
SJ8497NW PRINCESS STREET 698-1/32/331 (South West side) Nos.54 AND 56 Lionesse House
GV II
Shipping warehouses, now bank, offices, etc. c.1880-90. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roof. Almost rectangular plan on island site parallel to street, with canted corner to No.54. Four storeys with basements and attics, 8 bays with 2 windows per bay, plus the canted corner which has one window in each face; with punch-dressed stone plinth, cornice over ground floor, string-courses and sill-bands to all upper floors, moulded cornice and parapet (No.54 brick, and No.56 stone with short brick chimneys). Arcaded ground floor of round-headed arches with keystones and linked hoodmoulds, round-headed doorway to 4th bay with pilastered surround including keystone, carved spandrels and cornice on brackets, inserted doorway to 6th bay, windows with altered glazing in the other bays. Upper floors have shallow rectangular 2-storey oriels in alternate bays, with pilasters and balustraded parapets, and square-headed windows throughout, all with stone lintels and all sashed windows without glazing bars. Mansard roof with low flat-roofed dormers, slated pyramidal turret-roof to right-hand corner. Right-hand return side simpler, but with 2 pedimented attic dormers. Forms part of uninterrupted linear group of similar buildings on this side of Princess Street.
Listing NGR: SJ8423897742
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