No. 139, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
139, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197801
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- No. 139, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 139, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197801
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1992
- List Entry Name:
- No. 139, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 139, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 139, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83770 91686
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/01/2018
SJ 89 SW, 698-1/8/636
MANCHESTER,
BARLOW MOOR ROAD,
Barlow Moor (south side),
No. 139
(Formerly Listed as: The British Council)
27/04/92
II
Large detached house, now British Council offices (when surveyed). Late C19.
Red brick, red tile roof. Square plan plus large
porch-cum-staircase on north side. Queen Anne style. Two
storeys over cellars, with a string course, deeply coved
plastered eaves, and steeply pitched roofs. The entrance front
is dominated by a large stair-turret in the centre, which has
a full-width balcony on large stone brackets, with
wrought-iron railings, the doorway beneath this and a very
large canted oriel rising from balcony to eaves, with wooden
transoms and mullions including a semicircular light in the
centre, and a parapet with central pediment; and a hipped roof
with shaped brick upstand including a terracotta panel; the
side ranges have only one narrow window at ground floor. East
front has (inter alia) a round-headed archway in the centre,
and a small 1st-floor oriel to the right (in similar style to
that at the front, including upstand above); south front has
2-storey canted bay to right, with cross-windows, parapet and
large shaped gable in roof behind. Very tall chimneys.
Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8377091686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387915
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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