Nazarene Theological College

NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, DENE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217813
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Nazarene Theological College
Statutory Address:
NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, DENE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217813
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Nazarene Theological College
Statutory Address 1:
NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, DENE ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, DENE 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 84047 91057

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW DENE ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/8/638 (South side) 20/06/88 Nazarene Theological College

GV II

Former private house, now theological college. 1914, by Mark and Dunkerley. Pink brick with some timber framing and plaster infill; graduated stone slate roof. H-plan main block, with long service wing attached to front of left wing. Vernacular Revival style. Main block 2-storeys and attics, 1:3:1 windows, almost symmetrical, with projecting gabled crosswings; central 2-storey gabled timber-framed porch open at ground floor and the upper floor slightly jettied, with a transomed 10-light oriel just below the bressummer; wooden mullioned casement windows of 1, 2 and 3 lights on both floors, and 2 small 3-light flat-roofed dormers in the roof. Transomed 6- and 10-light windows in the left wing, which has an outshut on its outer side, with a single-storey range attached to the front of this; single-storey projection to front of right-hand wing, with splayed corners, 6-light transomed window above. Various tall chimneys. Attached projecting service wing is T-plan, with low single-storey range ternminating in a taller gabled end wing which has a wooden bellcote on the roof. Rear: recessed centre with canted 2-storey bay under hipped roof (the upper floor of this open as a balcony), between coupled-gable wings, the inner gables slightly smaller and and formerly serving as porches, with round-headed arches at ground floor (now enclosed and glazed); semicircular bay windows at ground floor of the outer gables (that to the right now with a brick parapet); transomed windows. Interior: good plasterwork, some segmental barrel vaulted ceilings, etc., open-well staircase with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SJ8404791057

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Legacy System number:
388103
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.

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