The Britons Protection PH the Britons Protection Public House

THE BRITONS PROTECTION PH, 50, GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292050
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1990
List Entry Name:
The Britons Protection PH the Britons Protection Public House
Statutory Address:
THE BRITONS PROTECTION PH, 50, GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292050
Date first listed:
16-Mar-1990
Date of most recent amendment:
05-Jul-2000
List Entry Name:
The Britons Protection PH the Britons Protection Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE BRITONS PROTECTION PH, 50, GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET
Statutory Address 2:
THE BRITONS PROTECTION PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE BRITONS PROTECTION PH, 50, GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET
Statutory Address:
THE BRITONS PROTECTION PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, GREAT BRIDGEWATER 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 83685 97610

Details

MANCHESTER

698-1/31/146 GREAT BRIDGEWATER STREET 16-MAR-90 (South side) 50 THE BRITONS PROTECTION PUBLIC HOUSE

II

Public house. Early C19, internally remodelled c.1930. MATERIALS: red brick, the front painted at ground floor and roughcast and whitened above. Slate roof. PLAN: double depth plan with added rear wings. Long bar at front parallel to street with corridor and further rooms behind. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over cellars. Symmetrical facade. Ground floor doorways at both ends and in the centre, all with pilastered jambs with foliate capitals. 2 pairs of windows with altered glazing and over these plain fascia board with pairs of foliate consoles at ends and cornice over. Upper floors have simple pilasters at corners, terminating below top of parapet. 2 tripartite sash windows on each upper floor and 4-pane sash window in centre of second floor, all with moulded architraves, those at first floor, taller, with cornices on consoles, and that in centre of second floor with floating cornice. High parapet stepped up over centre. Rear, most windows altered. INTERIOR: retains much of remodelling c1930. Front bar with ornate Lincrusta ceiling. Panelled bar front with late C20 superstructure. Corridor from left-hand entrance turns at right angles behind servery. Bar back has glazed sash windows for service in corridor area. Further corridor, with tiled dado, to toilet area at rear. 2 back rooms with fixed seating and bell pushes. Contemporary fireplaces. Dog-leg staircase with barley-sugar balusters. White glazed bricks in toilets of c1930. HISTORY: known as 'The Britons Protection' in 1820. The interior character of this public house is largely determined by c1930 remodelling which survives largely intact.

Listing NGR: SJ8368597610

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
388154
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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