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Listing: terrace of 4 houses, c.1850. A good example
of a mid C19 terrace. The basement dwelling are an unusual feature. Rear has
projection on arches with basement, set back with small-paned casements and
entrances; they were used as separate dwellings.
Comment: The upper picture shows the original, and now listed,
terrace. The terrace was falling apart when a local developer, Peter Maddox,
bought the whole lot. Presumably to finance the restoration, he got planning
permission for the extension shown on the right of the lower picture.
There are basically two ways of treating such an extension: build an exact
copy or go for broke with totally modern. What seems to have happened here is
that a building has been produced which would readily pass muster in some styles
of post-modernism but which is such a close copy that, at first glance, you do
not notice that it is a different time; at second glance, its obvious. This is a
neat trick if you can do it and the architects here could.
The whole is now occupied by H M Customs and Excise; and the block as a whole
is called "Deansgate"
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