803 AND 805, WILMSLOW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254893
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: 803 AND 805, WILMSLOW ROAD
Statutory Address:: 803 AND 805, WILMSLOW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254893
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: 803 AND 805, WILMSLOW ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 803 AND 805, WILMSLOW 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:: 803 AND 805, WILMSLOW 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 84859 90427

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8490 WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/25/662 (North side) Nos.803 AND 805

GV II

Pair of houses. Probably c.1870. Brown brick in header bond, with some dressings of sandstone and red brick, and some applied "half-timbering"; slate roofs. Irregular plan. Two storeys plus a narrow 3-storey tower, a 7-window range including a square-topped wing to the left, a square-topped tower next to this, and 2 steeply-pitched gables with ornamental half-timbering and projecting verges with bargeboards; square-headed doorway at base of tower, another doorway to right of 3rd window, with gabled porch; mostly 2-light windows on both floors, but a 3-light window between the doorways, and another at 1st floor to the left, with ornamental cast-iron balcony. Part of the settlement known as The Grove, said to have been built for immigrant North German community. Rare example of domestic architecture reflecting cosmopolitan nature of C19 Manchester society. Forms group with items in The Grove and with No.807 Wilmslow Road.

Listing NGR: SJ8485990427

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Legacy System number:: 458264
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.