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© Mr Brian Lomas
IoE Number:
387863
Location:
ALBERT CHAMBERS, 16-18 ALBERT SQUARE (south side)
MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr Brian Lomas
Date Photographed:
06 April 2006
Date listed:
03 October 1974
Date of last amendment:
06 June 1994
Grade
II
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MANCHESTER
SJ8398SE ALBERT SQUARE
698-1/27/2 (South side)
03/10/74 No.16
Albert Chambers
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBERT SQUARE
(South side)
Nos.16 TO 18 (Consecutive))
GV II
Formerly erroneously included with No.18 (q.v.). Offices.
1873, by Clegg and Knowles, for Manchester Corporation
Gasworks; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Rectangular
plan. Venetian style. Basement and 4 storeys, a 5-window
facade horizontally divided between 1st and 2nd floors, the
lower portion treated as a regular 5-bay arcade of
round-headed arches with pilasters which have carved caps, and
the upper portion with windows grouped 1:4:1 in panels, a
Lombard frieze to each panel and another over the whole, with
a moulded cornice and embattled parapet. The doorway in the
5th bay has lion-mask brackets to the lintel, a semicircular
fanlight, a 2-centred arched extrados and a carved tympanum
including mask, lion and unicorn. All the windows are sashed
without glazing bars, those at ground floor segmental-headed,
those at 1st floor round-headed with foliated sills, imposts
and hoodmoulds; above this level, the 3-bay centre has an
unusual prominent sill on brackets and most of the windows
have rounded trefoil heads except those in the centre of the
2nd floor which are square-headed and have shafts with
foliated caps. Interior not inspected. History: formerly
occupied by Manchester School of Music.