Xaverian College, Part Of, and Attached Archway
XAVERIAN COLLEGE, PART OF, AND ATTACHED ARCHWAY, 8, LOWER PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197923
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Xaverian College, Part Of, and Attached Archway
- Statutory Address:
- XAVERIAN COLLEGE, PART OF, AND ATTACHED ARCHWAY, 8, LOWER PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197923
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Xaverian College, Part Of, and Attached Archway
- Statutory Address 1:
- XAVERIAN COLLEGE, PART OF, AND ATTACHED ARCHWAY, 8, LOWER PARK 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:
- XAVERIAN COLLEGE, PART OF, AND ATTACHED ARCHWAY, 8, LOWER PARK 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:
- SJ8535095433
Details
SJ8595
698-1/22/804
03/10/74
MANCHESTER
LOWER PARK ROAD, Rusholme
(West side)
No.8
Xaverian College, part of, and attached archway
II
GV
Formerly known as: No.8 Firwood LOWER PARK ROAD Rusholme.
Villa, now part of 6th form college. 1874-5, by Alfred
Waterhouse, for T.R.Heatherington; altered. Red brick with
blue brick bands (etc), tiled roofs with cockscomb ridges.
Roughly rectangular plan (plus later additions to rear).
Two-and-a-half storeys plus a tower; with 2 saw-tooth bands
between floors, steeply-pitched gabled roofs, (etc). At the
right-hand corner, in the angle between the front range and
the rear wing, is a rectangular tower which has a gabled
wooden porch on its north side, with open sides and fishscale
tiled roof, various small windows, a shield in the east side,
a stylised Lombard frieze and a steep saddleback roof with
cresting to the ridge. To the left of the tower is a
diagonally-set gabled bay which has 2 tall sashed windows at
ground floor, 2 similar windows and a balcony with
wrought-iron railings at 1st floor, and coupled smaller
windows above; at the left end of the facade is another gabled
bay which has 3 similar windows at ground and 1st floors and
coupled windows above, the ground floor windows protected by a
tiled pentice roof; and the main range between these bays has
a dormer window with half-hipped roof and finial. Most windows
have square-paned leaded glazing, some with stained glass. The
left return wall (south front) is longer and has similar
fenestration including a pentice to the ground-floor, and 2
similar dormers. Attached to the north side is a tall
2-centred archway with steeply pitched gable and ball finial.
Listing NGR: SJ 85350 95433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388303
- 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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