Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89SE WHITWORTH LANE, Rusholme
698-1/9/816 (East side)
03/10/74 Lodge of The Firs, with attached
gateway
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITWORTH LANE, Fallowfield
(East side)
Lodge of The Firs)

GV II

Gate lodge with attached gateway. 1851, by Edward Walters.
Lodge of stucco on brick, with slate roof; stone gate piers
with wrought-iron gates and side walls of red brick in Flemish
bond. The lodge is square in plan, 2 storeys facing the drive,
with a rectangular 2-storey gabled bay to the right and a
doorway with shouldered architrave to the left. The bay, which
is flanked by round-headed lancets at ground floor, has wooden
mullion-and-transom windows to both floors, and barge-boards
pierced by quatrefoils; and to the left at 1st floor is a
small oriel window. The left return wall has (inter alia) a
wooden canted oriel at 1st floor. The gateway has square gate
piers with pyramidal caps and elaborate wrought-iron gates,
and is flanked by convex quadrantal side walls of brick, that
to the left linked to the lodge.

Listing NGR: SJ8585494136

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546473

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