HARTLEY HALL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES

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
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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 387874
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.