Lodge to the Towers (Shirley Institute) And Attached Gatepier
LODGE TO THE TOWERS (SHIRLEY INSTITUTE) AND ATTACHED GATEPIER, WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254974
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge to the Towers (Shirley Institute) And Attached Gatepier
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE TO THE TOWERS (SHIRLEY INSTITUTE) AND ATTACHED GATEPIER, WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254974
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge to the Towers (Shirley Institute) And Attached Gatepier
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE TO THE TOWERS (SHIRLEY INSTITUTE) AND ATTACHED GATEPIER, WILMSLOW 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:
- LODGE TO THE TOWERS (SHIRLEY INSTITUTE) AND ATTACHED GATEPIER, 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 85086 90404
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SE WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/9/682 (South side) 04/03/74 Lodge to The Towers (Shirley Institute) and attached gatepier (Formerly Listed as: WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury Lodge of Shirley Institute)
GV II
Entrance lodge to The Towers (now Shirley Institute). c.1868-72, by Thomas Worthington, for J.E.Taylor. Red brick, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. L-plan formed by main range on north-south axis, short set-back wing on west side, with porch in angle. French Gothic style, with very steeply pitched roofs and tall chimneys. One-and-a-half storeys (the wing lower); rectangular open-arcaded porch with 2 arches to the front and one to the side, composed of short stout columns and responds with foliated caps and moulded 2-centred arches, with a dripband and coped parapet; bracketed brick band to main range, the upper storey slightly oversailing, one cross-window on each floor, the upper breaking through the eaves and rising into a gablet, very steeply pitched hipped roof swept over eaves; tall coupled side-wall chimney, similar chimney at junction with wing, which has a banded gable wall with cross-window at ground floor and cusped oculus near the apex. Banded gate-pier attached to north-west corner by short wall.
Listing NGR: SJ8508690404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458459
- 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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