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15-520: The Manchester Stock Exchange , later a branch of the Northern Stock Exchange , is now a Grade II listed hotel. at 2–6 Norfolk Street, Manchester . It was built at a cost of £86,000, between 1904 and 1906 by Bradshaw, Gass and Hope , the Bolton architectural practice responsible for many of Manchester's iconic buildings. A three-storey rectangular Edwardian Baroque building on an island site,

30-527: A non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport . The metropolitan county of Greater Manchester is made up of 10 metropolitan boroughs : Bolton , Bury , Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Salford , Stockport , Tameside , Trafford and Wigan . The Grade I buildings in each borough are listed separately. Manchester, the world's first industrialised city, has 15 of Greater Manchester's 48 Grade I listed buildings,

45-546: A " joint stock mania " to Manchester. The thriving stock exchange was continually short of space and so this new building that reflected the confidence of the community was commissioned. Initially, trade in the new premises trebled and it became the busiest regional exchange for industrial stocks in the country. Trading on the market was severely disrupted by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and eventually, as with other regional exchanges, its role became very much secondary to

60-483: A 35-room hotel in 2015. A homeless activism group squatted the building site in 2015 and renamed it the " Sock Exchange" to publicise their provision of clothes to rough sleepers. Neville and Giggs gave the group their support and allowed them to stay in the uncompleted building over winter. Stock Exchange Hotel Grade II listed buildings in Manchester There are many Grade II listed buildings in

75-473: A niche at the top of the main staircase. Three buildings are attributed to engineer George Stephenson . One of them, Liverpool Road railway station , is the oldest surviving railway station in the world. The newest Grade I listed building in Greater Manchester is Royd House , built and designed by Edgar Wood in 1916 as his residence. Twenty-two buildings, almost half of the total, were completed in

90-454: Is "one of the classic areas of industrial and urban growth in Britain, the result of a combination of forces that came together in the 18th and 19th centuries: a phenomenal rise in population, the appearance of the specialist industrial town, a transport revolution, and weak local lordship". Much of the region, historically a part of Lancashire , was at the forefront of textile manufacturing from

105-698: Is the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin in Eccles , completed in the 13th century but greatly expanded since then. There are eight listed manor houses , the earliest of which date from the 14th century; Wardley Hall , still in use today as the residence of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford , has the preserved skull of St Ambrose Barlow  – one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales  – on display in

120-1020: 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. Manchester has fifteen Grade I listed buildings and 80 Grade II* listed buildings. This list concerns Grade II buildings in Manchester. Italics denote building under construction Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester#Manchester Download coordinates as: There are 48 Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester , England. In

135-578: The Manchester Stock Exchange is built in Portland stone . The ground floor displays the same channelled rock face rustication as at Stockport Central Library . There is a strong cornice and two further floors, with the central five bays having oriel windows surmounted by colonnaded windows. The end two bays are open pedimented with coupled columns , and the square headed doors feature carved shields in their pediments. Pevsner described

150-513: The United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance; Grade I structures are those considered to be "buildings of exceptional interest". In England, the authority for listing under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 rests with Historic England ,

165-652: The capital market in London. In the 1960s it was reduced to being a branch of the Northern Stock Exchange, a grouping of fellow regional exchanges. 1973's merger of the Northern Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange led to computerisation of the trading floor but shortly afterwards that was closed, the premises employed as offices. The building became a restaurant then was bought for £1.5 million by former Manchester United footballers, Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs . They obtained planning permission to turn it into

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180-528: 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

195-400: The early 19th century until the early 20th century, and the county includes several former mill towns . Greater Manchester has a wealth of industrial heritage , represented by industrial architecture found throughout the county, but most of its Grade I listed buildings have a municipal , ecclesiastic or other cultural heritage . The oldest Grade I listed structure in Greater Manchester

210-533: The highest number of any borough. Oldham is the only borough to have no listed buildings with a Grade I rating. The River Irwell forms the boundary between Manchester and Salford, so one listed structure, the railway bridge over the Irwell, has been listed under both Manchester and Salford. Most of Greater Manchester's listed buildings date from the Victorian and Edwardian periods. According to an Association for Industrial Archaeology publication, Greater Manchester

225-513: The interior as having "a magnificent hall with a dome supported at the corners by pilasters clad in sensuous green and cream marble ". The first Manchester stock exchange opened in 1836, as a branch of the London Stock Exchange , to allow regional businesses to raise finance and trade those shares and bonds locally. The exchange listed railway companies as well as those involved in insurance, mining and manufacture, helping bring

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