Grade II listed buildings in Manchester explained

There are many Grade II listed buildings in the city of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England. The majority of Manchester's listed buildings date from the Victorian (1837–1901) and Edwardian (1901–1911) eras, most as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution. In England and Wales, the authority for listing is granted by the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and is administered by English Heritage, an agency of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. There are three categories of listing – Grade I, Grade II* and Grade II.

Grade I is the highest listing category usually reserved for buildings of international stature; only 2.5% of listed buildings are Grade I. Grade II* comprises 5.5% of all listed building and are historic works worthy of special interest. The lowest and most common listing is Grade II, reserved for works which are architecturally, culturally or historically notable and warrant preservation.^[1] Manchester has fifteen Grade I listed buildings and 80 Grade II* listed buildings. This list concerns Grade II buildings in Manchester.^[2]

Buildings

Name	Image	Completed	Architect	Location	Year of listing & ref(s)
1 Albert Square			Sir Percy Scott Worthington	Albert Square	1974
1 Booth Street			Unknown	Booth Street	1974
8 Cable Street		Mid to later 19th century	Unknown	Ancoats	1994
8 Lower Park Road			Alfred Waterhouse	Rusholme	1974
8 and 8A St John Street		Late 18th century; altered	Unknown	St John Street	1952
10 St John Street					1952
11–17 St John Street					1952
12–16 St John Street					1952
13–17 Albion Street			Unknown	Castlefield	1974
15–17 King Street			Maxwell and Tuke	King Street	1994
18 and 20 St John Street		Late 18th century; altered	Unknown	St John Street	1952
19 St John Street					1952
21–25 St John Street					1952
22 St John Street					1952
24 St John Street		Mid to later 19th century			1974
24A and 26 St John Street		Late 18th century; altered			1974
27 Ardwick Green North			Unknown	Ardwick	1974
28 St John Street		Late 18th century; altered	Unknown	St John Street	1974
29 Swan Street			Unknown	Ancoats	1989
31 Ardwick Green North		Earlier 19th century	Unknown	Ardwick	1994
42–44 Sackville Street			Pennington and Brigden	Sackville Street	1974
46–48 Brown Street (Lombard Chambers)		1868	George Truefitt	Brown Street	1974
50 Newton Street			Clegg & Knowles	Piccadilly	1988
53 King Street		1912	Charles Heathcote	King Street	1974
55 Faulkner Street		1870	Clegg & Knowles	Chinatown	1994
74–78, and no. 80 (The Grey Horse Public House), Portland Street		Probably late 18th century	Unknown	Portland Street	1994
107 Piccadilly		1899	Charles Heathcote	Piccadilly	1974
235–291 Deansgate		1899	Unknown	Deansgate	1988
Addison Terrace		altered		Daisy Bank Road	1973
Albert Chambers		1873	Clegg & Knowles	Albert Square	1974
Albert Hall		1910	W. J. Morley	Peter Street	1982
Ancoats Hospital		1874	Lewis and Crawcroft	Ancoats	1974
Appleby Lodge		1939	Peter Cummings	Rusholme	2003
Apollo Theatre		1930	Unknown	Ardwick	1994
Arkwright House		1937	Harry S. Fairhurst	Parsonage Gardens	1982
Ashburne Hall		1933	Sir Percy Scott Worthington	Fallowfield	2012
Ashton Canal lock keepers cottage beside lock number 2 at Islington Branch junction basin		altered	Unknown	Beswick and Clayton	1994
Ashton Canal lock keepers cottage on south side of lock number 7 of Ashton Canal		1865			1991
Ashton Canal lock numbers 1–3 and 6–15					1991 1994
Ashton Canal towpath bridge over junction with Islington Branch Canal west of lock number 2		altered			1994
Ashton Canal towpath bridge over junction with Stockport Branch Canal		Probably ; altered			1994
Barlow Hall		15th century; altered	Unknown	Chorlton-cum-Hardy	1974 (downgraded in 1994)
Barnes Hospital		1875	Lawrence Booth	Didsbury	1998
Bridge numbers 4, 5, 9 and 16 over Ashton Canal		Probably (nos. 4, 5 and 9); 1838 (no. 16)	Unknown	Beswick and Clayton	1987 1991 1994
Bridge over moat to Clayton Hall		Probably 17th century	Unknown	Beswick and Clayton	1994
Bridgewater House		1912	Harry Fairhurst	Whitworth Street	1994
Bright's Statue		1891	William Theed	Albert Square	1974
The Briton's Protection		Early 19th century	Unknown	Great Bridgewater Street	1990
Brunswick Mill			David Bellhouse and William Fairbairn	Ancoats	1994
Bus Depot and Transport Museum		1901		Queens Road, Cheetham	1988^[3]
Canada House		1905		Chepstow Street	1988
Carlton House		1872	Clegg & Knowles	Albert Square	1974
Castle Hotel		Early to mid-19th century with alterations	Unknown	Oldham Street	1988
Castlefield Congregational Chapel		1858	Edward Walters	Castlefield	1988
Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre (The Firs)		1851	Edward Walters	Fallowfield	1974
Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre (The Firs Gate Lodge)					1974
Cheetham Town Hall		1855	Thomas Bird	Cheetham Hill Road	1974
Chorlton New Mills		Early to mid-19th century	Unknown	Chorlton-on-Medlock	1988
Chorlton Old Mill		1795 extended ; largely rebuilt 1866	Unknown	Cambridge Street	1988
Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall		1831	Richard Lane	Chorlton-on-Medlock	1952
CIS Tower		1962	Gordon Tait	Miller Street	1995
Cooperative Press		Late 19th century	Unknown	Naples Street, Ancoats	1994
Corn Exchange		1903	Unknown	Exchange Square	1973
Crown and Kettle		Early 19th century, with alterations		Ancoats	1974
Dalton-Ellis Hall		1882	G. T. Redmayne	Conygham Road	1974
Deansgate railway station		1896	Unknown	Deansgate / Whitworth Street West	1998
Derros Building		1899	William Sharpe	Great Ancoats Street	1998
Drill Hall		1886	Laurence Booth	Ardwick	1974
Eaglesfield		Mid-19th century	Unknown	Rusholme	1974
Former Newton Street Police Station		1879	J. H. Lynde	Newton Street	1974^[4]
Former warehouse and offices of Old Mill, Decker Mill, and New Mill			Unknown	Ancoats	1994
Fraser's Statue		1888	Thomas Woolner	Albert Square	1974
Gladstone's Statue		1901	William Theed	Albert Square	1974
Grand Hotel		1867	Mills and Murgatroyd	Aytoun Street	1987
Greenhayes Centre		1896	Unknown	Moss Side	1994
Greygarth Hall			Unknown	Victoria Park	1994
Grosvenor Picture Palace		1915	Percy Hothersall	Grosvenor Street	1974
Hanover Building		1909	F.E.L Harris	Corporation Street	1988
Hartley Hall and attached railings and gates		1879, 1896, 1906	Unknown	Fallowfield	1974
Heywood's Statue		1894	Albert Bruce-Joy	Albert Square	1974
Holyoake House		1911	F.E.L Harris	Dantzic Street	1988
Hulme Barracks		1817		Hulme	1978
Hulme Hall			Sir Percy Scott Worthington	Victoria Park, Rusholme	1974
Hulme Hippodrome		1901	J. J. Alley	Hulme	1977
Instituto Cervantes		1882	George Meek	Deansgate	1974
Jubilee Fountain		1897	John Cassidy and Thomas Worthington	Albert Square	1974
K6 telephone kiosk		1935	Giles Gilbert Scott	St John Street	1987
Kendals		1939	J. S. Beaumont	Deansgate	1982
Little Mill		1908	Unknown	Ancoats	1994
Manchester Opera House		1912	Richardson and Gill with Farquarson	Quay Street	1974
Manchester Oxford Road railway station		1960	W. R. Headley and Max Glendinning	Oxford Road	1995
Manchester Piccadilly station Store Street train shed		1881	Unknown	Piccadilly	1994
Manchester School of Art		1881	G. T. Redmayne	Oxford Road	1974
Manchester Stock Exchange		1907	Bradshaw Gass & Hope	Norfolk Street	1974
Manchester Victoria station		1844	Unknown	Hunts Bank	1988
Merchants' Warehouse		1823 altered	Unknown	Castlefield	1988
Milepost beside railings of Ardwick Park		Probably later 18th century	Unknown	Ardwick	1994
Milford House		Earlier 19th century; altered	Unknown	Ardwick	1974
Mill on north east corner of junction with Chester Street		Early 19th century; altered	Unknown	Cambridge Street	1988
Mitre Hotel		1867	Unknown	Cathedral Yard	1988
Mynshull's House		1890	William Ball and Thomas Brookes Elce	Cateaton Street	1988
National and Provincial Building Society			C. R. Cockerell	King Street	1974
Nazarene Theological College		1914	Mark and Dunkerley	Didsbury	1988
New Century House		1962	G. S. Hay and Gordon Tait	Miller Street	1995
The Old Wellington Inn		Mid-16th century	Unknown	Shambles Square	1952
Palace Theatre		1891	Alfred Derbyshire and F. Bennett Smith	Oxford Street	1977
Park Cottage		altered	Unknown	Withington	2003
People's History Museum		1909	Henry Price	Left Bank	1992
Peveril of the Peak			Unknown	Great Bridgewater Street	1988
Playhouse Theatre		1902	J. J. Alley	Hulme	1988
The Plough		Late 19th century	Unknown	Gorton	1994
Queen's Brewery		1861	Greatorex Brothers	Moss Lane West	1994
Railings of Ardwick Green		Early 19th century	Unknown	Ardwick	1974
The Rampant Lion public house and attached screen wall		Mid to later 19th century; altered	Unknown	Rusholme	1973
Redfern Building		1936	W. A. Johnson and J. W. Cooper	Dantzic Street	1994
The Ritz		1927	Unknown	Whitworth Street	1994
Royal Exchange		1921	Bradshaw, Gass & Hope	Cross Street	1974
Rylands Building		1932	Harry S. Fairhurst	Market Street	1994
Sackville Street Building		1912	Spalding and Cross	Sackville Street	1974
Samuel Alexander Building		1919	Sir Percy Scott Worthington	Oxford Road	2010
Sharston Mount			Unknown	Sharston	1974
Ship Canal House		1927	Harry S. Fairhurst	King Street	1982
Smithfield Market Hall		1858	Isaac Holden	Swan Street, Ancoats	1973
South Manchester Synagogue		1913	Joseph Sunlight	Fallowfield	1974
St Andrew's Chambers		1874	G. T. Redmayne	Albert Square	1974
St Anselm Hall		altered	Unknown	Victoria Park	1974
St Bede's College		1877	Dunn and Hansom	Whalley Range	1994
St James Buildings		1912	Clegg, Fryer & Penman	65–95 Oxford Street	1988
St Luke's Church, Cheetham		1839	T. W. Atkinson	Corner of Cheetham Hill Road/Smedley Lane, Cheetham Hill	1974
St Mary's Hospital		1909	John Ely	Wilmslow Road	1994
St Paul's Church		1841	Hayley and Brown	Withington	1988
Strangeways Gaol Gatehouse		1868	Alfred Waterhouse	Sherborne Street	1974
Strangeways Prison ventilation and watch tower					1974
The Star and Garter		1877	Unknown	Fairfield Street	1988
Sunlight House		1932	Joseph Sunlight	Quay Street	1988
Theatre Royal		1845	Irwin and Chester	Peter Street	1974
Toast Rack		1960	L. C. Howitt	Fallowfield	1999
Victoria and Albert Warehouses			Unknown	Water Street	1974^[5]
War Memorial		Early 1920s	Unknown	Ardwick Green	1994
The Whitworth		1889	J. W. Beaumont	Oxford Road	1974
Whitworth Park Mansions			Unknown	Whitworth Park	1974
William Temple Memorial Church		1960	George Pace	Wythenshawe	1998
Withington Hospital (Principal Administrative Block)		1854	Hayley, Son and Hall	West Didsbury	1974
Withington Hospital (Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen and Gates)					1974

See also

• Grade I listed buildings in Manchester
• Grade II* listed buildings in Manchester

Notes and References

1. Web site: Listed Buildings and the Listing Process . https://web.archive.org/web/20071111223206/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Faqs/default.aspx?topic=4 . dead . 11 November 2007 . Images of England . 13 November 2012.
2. Web site: A–Z of Listed Buildings in Manchester . Manchester City Council . 6 March 2024.
3. Web site: Listed buildings in Manchester by street (Q) . Manchester City Council . 1 February 2017.
4. Web site: Listed buildings in Manchester by street (N) . Manchester City Council . 2 February 2017.
5. Book: A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Greater Manchester . McNeil, Robina . Nevell, Michael . Association for Industrial Archaeology . 2000 . 0-9528930-3-7 . 12.