Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8595 UPPER PARK ROAD, Rusholme
698-1/22/813 (East side)
03/10/74 No.1
High Elms

GV II

Villa, now offices. Mid to later C19. Red brick in Flemish
bond, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Roughly
rectangular plan with back extensions (C20 additions to
right). Gothic style. Two storeys and cellar, 3 bays,
symmetrical, the centre narrower and slightly recessed and the
outer bays gabled; with stone plinth, string course, stone
coped gables with raking parapets faced with later cement. The
centre has a Tudor-arched doorway with replacement divided
doors, moulded stone surround, hollow spandrels, hoodmould,
and over the centre of this a panel with a quatrefoil motif.
The ground floor has cross-windows and the 1st floor has
3-light windows, all these with slender stone mullions and
arched lights, those in the centre and to the right at 1st
floor with small panes and the others with altered glazing.
Two ridge chimneys. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8551295589

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560688

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