Description

SJ8595
698-1/22/805

MANCHESTER
LOWER PARK ROAD, Rusholme
(West side)

Marylands

II

GV

Villa, now annex to 6th form college. c.1870-80. Grey and
yellow brick with dressings of sandstone ashlar and some red
brick, steeply-pitched slate roofs with red cockscomb ridge
tiles. L-shaped plan. Gothic style. Two storeys and attic, 3
bays, asymmetrical, with a gabled bay to the left and a larger
gabled bay to the right; red brick bands on 3 levels and
parallel to the gables, stylised Lombard friezes. The centre
has an elaborate arched doorway offset left, with set-in
shafts and 2-centred arch broken by the lintel, the head
banded and containing a multifoil overlight, and a
steeply-pitched gablet with apex finial; above this, a
half-dormer with 2 narrow sashed windows and half-hipped roof,
and to the right a mullioned 2-light stairwindow with
segmental-headed sashed lights and a deep stone lintel with
small multifoil lights. The gabled bay to the left (breaking
forwards slightly) has a 2-light bay window with sashes, and
coupled segmental-headed sashes at 1st floor set in 2-centred
arches with decorated heads; the wider bay to the right has a
large segmental 3-light bow window at ground floor, with
columnar stone mullions, carved heads, and 6-pane sashes with
vertical glazing bars; a 3-light sashed window at 1st floor
with similar mullions, and an attic window like that at 1st
floor of the other gable. Tall ridge chimneys. South front of
4 bays in similar style, with unequal gables to the 1st and
3rd bays, and large half-dormer windows to the 2nd and 4th
bays, with hipped roofs. Interior: original features in
similar style, including staircase, doorways, etc.

Listing NGR: SJ 85338 95522

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514305

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