Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8595 CONYNGHAM ROAD, Rusholme
698-1/22/789 (East side)
03/10/74 Dalton Hall with attached forecourt
walls
(Formerly Listed as:
CONYNGHAM ROAD, Rusholme
(East side)
Dalton Hall)

GV II

Hall of residence for members of the Society of Friends to
attend Manchester University. 1881-2 by G.T.Redmayne. Stock
brick wih red brick and sandstone dressings, some red
terracotta, slate roofs with red cockscomb ridging tiles. Long
range with rear wing towards south end. Three storeys with
basement and attics, asymmetrical, with a gabled wing at the
north end, a lower 3-window link with 3 gables, and a higher
9-window range with 4 gables, the first 2 linked and the 3rd,
which breaks forwards slightly, containing the main entrance.
High basement, moulded terracotta sill-bands to all floors,
stone gable copings. The entrance, up a flight of steps, has a
wide 2-centred arch moulded in 3 orders with a hoodmould, and
a richly ornamented triptych of terracotta panels above,
including the date 1881, and above this a 3-light
brick-mullioned window to each floor, the lower under a
segmental relieving arch and the upper in a 2-centred blank
arch. To the right of the entrance is a 3-stage transomed
stairwindow; otherwise, most other windows are of 3 and 4
lights with brick mullions and segmental relieving arches,
those at 1st and 2nd floors of the coupled gable portion set
in pilasterd giant blank arches. Attached to the entrance
steps are the splayed returned ends of the forecourt wall,
which has brick piers at short intervals, linked by twisted
iron bars.

Listing NGR: SJ8561195593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Dalton-Ellis Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5211662

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