Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen and Gates of Withington Hospital
ENTRANCE LODGES, PIERS, SCREEN AND GATES OF WITHINGTON HOSPITAL, NELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197895
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen and Gates of Withington Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE LODGES, PIERS, SCREEN AND GATES OF WITHINGTON HOSPITAL, NELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197895
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen and Gates of Withington Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE LODGES, PIERS, SCREEN AND GATES OF WITHINGTON HOSPITAL, NELL LANE
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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:
- ENTRANCE LODGES, PIERS, SCREEN AND GATES OF WITHINGTON HOSPITAL, NELL LANE
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 83582 92283
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW NELL LANE, Barlow Moor 698-1/8/503 (North side) 03/10/74 Entrance Lodges, piers, Screen and gates of Withington Hospital (Formerly Listed as: NELL LANE, West Didsbury Entrance Lodges, piers, screens and gates of Withington Hospital)
GV II
Pair of entrance lodges to hospital, with linking screens, gate piers and gates. 1854; by Hayley, Son and Hall. Red brick with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roofs; cast-iron screens, gate piers and gates. Each lodge has a tripartite plan consisting of a tall rectangular centre flanked by lower square wings. Italianate style. Each has a 3-storey 1-bay centre and 2-storey 1-bay wings in a symmetrical composition, the centre projecting; with stone plinth, rusticated quoins, 1st-floor sill-band, prominent bracketed eaves, parapets to the wings (each with a pierced arched upstand), and side-wall chimneys; tripartite windows at ground floor, with corniced stone architraves; and at 1st floor a large round-headed window to the centre, with shell tympanum and broad extrados band with keystone and stylised voussoirs, and a Venetian window in each wing, with keyed architrave. Return sides and rear similar, with round-headed windows and doorways at ground floor. The west lodge also has a 2-storeyed extension to the left, with a double projection in the centre and a Venetian window with blocked tympanum. The linking screens have cast-iron open-work piers, bar railings with mid and top bands, and 3 pairs of cast-iron gates. Forms group with Withington Hospital principal administrative block (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8358292283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388342
- 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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