Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89SE OLD HALL LANE, FALLOWFIELD, Rusholme
698-1/9/809 (South side)
20/06/88 Behrens Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD HALL LANE, FALLOWFIELD, Rusholme
(South side)
Ashburne Hall(original house only))

II

Formerly known as: The Oaks OLD HALL LANE Fallowfield.
Large house, now part of university hall of residence. 1835-8,
for Robert Ogden, cotton spinner; altered. Scored stucco on
brick, with sandstone ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof.
Deep rectangular plan. Classical style. Two storeys over
cellars, 3 bays, symmetrical; with stone plinth, broad
pilasters to the outer bays forming segmental-headed blank
arches. The ground floor has a large pedimented stone porch
(up 7 steps) with 4 Ionic columns raised on a plinth, moulded
frieze, and pediment with apex acroterion, protecting a wide
square-headed doorway which has double doors, an overlight
with fan-pattern tracery, and round-headed side windows with
margin panes including roundels; and two windows sashed
without glazing bars, with engraved sills. The 1st floor has
three 12-pane sashed windows, that in the centre with a
corniced architrave. Long return walls with various sashed
windows, that to the right with a canted bay window to the
ground floor front room. Interior: entrance lobby screen which
has double doors and side windows all with round-headed
glazing like the side windows to the door; pilastered entrance
hall; fine imperial staircase with elaborately decorated
cast-iron balusters and wreathed mahogany handrails,
illuminated by a glazed dome; panelled mahogany doors and
architraves; some moulded plaster friezes and original
fireplaces. History: originally known as "The Oaks"; presented
to the university, partly as gift, by Behrens family 1906-8.

Listing NGR: SJ8569394420

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538699

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)