Burnley Mechanics
BURNLEY MECHANICS, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1244905
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Burnley Mechanics
- Statutory Address:
- BURNLEY MECHANICS, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1244905
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Burnley Mechanics
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURNLEY MECHANICS, MANCHESTER ROAD
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.
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:
- BURNLEY MECHANICS, MANCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83989 32409
Details
BURNLEY
SD8332SE MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/19/88 (North West side) 29/09/77 Burnley Mechanics (Formerly Listed as: MANCHESTER ROAD (West side) Former Mechanics Institute)
GV II*
Mechanics' Institute, now theatre, arts centre. 1854-5, by James Green of Todmorden; enlarged 1888 by William Waddington; altered. Sandstone ashlar, with felted hipped roofs. Palazzo style. Rectangular plan on corner site plus later additions to the left and the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basements to the rear, a 5-window main range plus a 2-window extension to the left. The symmetrical main range has an emphatically rusticated ground floor, rusticated quoins at 1st floor, a panelled band between floors interrupted by balustraded balconies to the 1st-floor windows, a string course over the 1st floor, a plain frieze and a prominent modillioned cornice enriched with lion-masks. The ground floor has round-headed arcaded openings in 2 sets of 3, all with emphatic rusticated voussoirs and keystones and linked by an impost band, each set composed of a pair of Venetian windows flanking a narrower arch, with a window in the 1st of these, a doorway in the 2nd, and Ionic colonnettes in the Venetian windows, which also have panelled enrichment to the heads. All these windows now have plate glass glazing. The 1st floor has a tripartite window in the centre with a Corinthian architrave and segmental pediment containing richly-carved ornament, flanked by 2 pairs of windows with pedimented Corinthian architraves, all these windows with balustraded balconies. The lower 2-storey extension to the left has a splayed corner and is in generally similar style but with pilastered architraves to the windows, and a wide round-headed doorway adjoining the main range. The right-hand return wall of the main range (to York Street), of 3 bays with a rock-faced basement, has a tetrastyle Corinthian porch in the centre, 3 round-headed windows each side of this, and at 1st floor fenestration similar to the front including a tripartite window in the centre with a Corinthian architrave and segmental pediment. The extension continued to the rear of this, of 3 bays and slightly stepped back, defers to the former by imitating its fenestration but with pilastered architraves.
INTERIOR altered.
Listing NGR: SD8398932409
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467128
- 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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