Hartley Hall and Attached Railings and Gates
HARTLEY HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, ALEXANDRA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197825
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Hartley Hall and Attached Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- HARTLEY HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, ALEXANDRA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197825
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hartley Hall and Attached Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARTLEY HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, ALEXANDRA 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:
- HARTLEY HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, ALEXANDRA 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 83341 94297
Details
MANCHESTER,
SJ89SW, ALEXANDRA ROAD, Fallowfield
698-1/8/823 (West side)
Hartley Hall and attached railings
and gates
(Formerly Listed as: ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH, Alexandra Park (West side)
Hartley Victoria College)
03/10/74
II
Former Methodist college, hall of residence for Royal Northern
College of Music when surveyed. 1879, 1896, 1903-6. Brick with red
terracotta and stone dressings, slate roofs. Large irregular
plan formed by original block on corner of Gowan Road at south
end and successive additions to the north of this, with main
range parallel to street and various large rear wings.
Eclectic style with some Gothic and Elizabethan features. Two
storeys, attic and basement, plus a tower. The original block,
of stock brick, has an arcaded range of windows with pointed
arched heads, doorway with gabled porch and steps up, and
corbel-table eaves. The 1896 addition to the right has
buttresses, gables, mullion-and-transom windows (some with
double transoms), a projecting gabled bay with doorway in
stone surround, and a square tower to the right with an
octagonal clock turret and cupola; and wrought-iron forecourt
railings with two single gates and a pair of double gates in the
centre with open-work standards topped by lamp brackets and
scrolled overthrow with escutcheon. Attached to the right of
this, the 1903-6 block, of red brick with stone dressings and
green slate roof, in Elizabethan style, symmetrical, with
projecting gabled wings, stone mullion-and-transom windows (two
breaking the eaves), single-storey covered ways to left and
right. Chapel to right of this, in similar materials,
Perpendicular style, nave and two side chapels, with flying
buttresses and large traceried east window. Rear: all windows
now with uPVC glazing.
Listing NGR: SJ8334194297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387874
- 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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