Derros Building
Derros Building, 29, Great Ancoats Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119732
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Derros Building
- Statutory Address:
- Derros Building, 29, Great Ancoats Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119732
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Derros Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- Derros Building, 29, Great Ancoats Street
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Derros Building, 29, Great Ancoats Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84755 98644
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement on the 14 July 2022 to update the text
SJ 8498
698-1/17/11116
GREAT ANCOATS STREET, Ancoats (north-east side)
No. 29 (Derros Building)
GV
II
Women's shelter and rescue home, empty at the time of inspection. (March 1998). 1899, with C20 alterations. By Walter Richard Sharp, architect, of Manchester for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Central Hall Mission as a gift from Mr James Scarlett. Arts and Crafts style, with Vernacular Revival detailing. Red brick, with decorative banding in buff terracotta, and with close-studded jettied gable to attic storey to front. Blind timber-framed arcading as eaves band to side elevation. Contemporary interlocking clay tile roof covering with flat-headed dormer windows, and a tall side-wall stack.
PLAN: Narrow linear form with former coffee shop to narrow frontage to Great Ancoats Street.
FRONT ELEVATION (south-west): Single bay, Three storeys and attic. Former ground floor shop frontage now blocked up, but retaining decorative tile work to stall risers and tiled canopy above. Entrance doorway to angle on left. Above, canted oriel window with steeply-pitched tiled roof and mullioned and transomed window frames with leaded lights. Single-light window to right hand side of second floor and above, jettied close-studded gable with carved bargeboards and central two- light window.
SIDE ELEVATION (north-west): nine bays, three storeys and attics, with stacked mullioned and transomed windows to six bays, smaller single-light windows to two staircase bays. Some windows retain leaded lights and stained glass decorative panels. Triple storey bands between ground, first and second floor windows of buff terracotta, with decorative embellishment of window head panels. Two doorways with rectangular overlights. Seven flat headed dormer windows above eaves level.
INTERIOR: Altered and the original plan form disrupted by the removal of some internal partitions. Two levels of cellars, formerly kitchens, with hearths and storage areas. Staircase with square balusters and moulded handrails. Some original five panel doors, and wainscott panelling to ground floor. Floors supported by ovolo-chamfered crossbeams. Two glazed tile hearths to ground floor, and remains of tiled interior to former coffee house. Upper floor partitions remain in situ.
HISTORY: The women's shelter and rescue home was designed to provide non-institutional support for women and specifically for domestic servants, thought to be at risk, in the industrial district of Ancoats. There was both temporary and semi-permanent residential accommodation, training and recreational facilities, notably a ground floor coffee tavern, providing an alcohol-free environment for socializing. The Central Hall was a mission centre for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which recognised the need for a 24 hour refuge for women in addition to the permanent rescue home established by the church.
Listing NGR: SJ8475598644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469254
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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