Manchester is a city in
Northwest England. The
M2 postcode area of the city includes part of the city centre, including the Central Retail District. The postcode area contains 143
listed buildings that are recorded in the
National Heritage List for England. Of these, five are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, 16 are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
The area is important not only for retail, but also for commercial and civic functions. The majority of the listed buildings date from the early 19th to the early 20th century, and many of them are elaborately designed and decorated, reflecting the economic prosperity of the city during this time. The architectural styles employed include
Classical,
Greek Revival,
Renaissance,
Gothic
Gothic or Gothics may refer to:
People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
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Romanesque,
Venetian Gothic,
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
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Queen Anne, and
Edwardian Baroque. Some of the buildings originated as warehouses that have been converted for other uses, and a number of these are in the style of an Italian
palazzo. Most of the buildings are shops, offices, houses, banks, and civic and public buildings, Other buildings include churches, statues, tombs, monuments, public houses, clubs, a former railway station now an exhibition centre, a fountain, war memorials, two electricity
junction boxes, and a pair of telephone kiosks.
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Lists of listed buildings in Greater Manchester
Buildings and structures in Manchester