BEHRENS HALL

BEHRENS HALL, OLD HALL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246273
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: BEHRENS HALL
Statutory Address:: BEHRENS HALL, OLD HALL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246273
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: BEHRENS HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BEHRENS HALL, OLD HALL LANE

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:: BEHRENS HALL, OLD HALL LANE

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District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 85693 94420

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ89SE OLD HALL LANE, FALLOWFIELD, Rusholme 698-1/9/809 (South side) 20/06/88 Behrens Hall (Formerly Listed as: OLD HALL LANE, FALLOWFIELD, Rusholme (South side) Ashburne Hall(original house only))

II

Formerly known as: The Oaks OLD HALL LANE Fallowfield. Large house, now part of university hall of residence. 1835-8, for Robert Ogden, cotton spinner; altered. Scored stucco on brick, with sandstone ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof. Deep rectangular plan. Classical style. Two storeys over cellars, 3 bays, symmetrical; with stone plinth, broad pilasters to the outer bays forming segmental-headed blank arches. The ground floor has a large pedimented stone porch (up 7 steps) with 4 Ionic columns raised on a plinth, moulded frieze, and pediment with apex acroterion, protecting a wide square-headed doorway which has double doors, an overlight with fan-pattern tracery, and round-headed side windows with margin panes including roundels; and two windows sashed without glazing bars, with engraved sills. The 1st floor has three 12-pane sashed windows, that in the centre with a corniced architrave. Long return walls with various sashed windows, that to the right with a canted bay window to the ground floor front room. Interior: entrance lobby screen which has double doors and side windows all with round-headed glazing like the side windows to the door; pilastered entrance hall; fine imperial staircase with elaborately decorated cast-iron balusters and wreathed mahogany handrails, illuminated by a glazed dome; panelled mahogany doors and architraves; some moulded plaster friezes and original fireplaces. History: originally known as "The Oaks"; presented to the university, partly as gift, by Behrens family 1906-8.

Listing NGR: SJ8569394420

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Legacy System number:: 454823
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.