The Cedars
THE CEDARS, 825, WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270546
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Cedars
- Statutory Address:
- THE CEDARS, 825, WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270546
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Cedars
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CEDARS, 825, 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:
- THE CEDARS, 825, 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 85122 90492
Details
MANCHESTER,
SJ89SE, WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury
698-1/9/665 (North side),
No. 825,
The Cedars
03/10/74
II
Villa, now part of office. 1857, by Edward Walters; altered.
White-painted stucco on brick, slate roof. U-plan formed by
double-pile main range with two wings on north side; entrance
front formerly at west end, but orientation altered by C20
additions there, entrance front now on south side. Two storeys
with attic and basements, an asymmetrical 3-bay south facade
with string-courses carried round, and an emphasis on
tripartite openings: a slightly-projected rectangular porch
(formerly a window or French window) offset slightly right
(and approached by a long flight of steps) with glazed double
doors and a cornice on consoles, flanked by tall narrow sashed
windows; tripartite sashes above the porch; a 2-storey
3-window canted bay to the left, with a similar cornice to the
centre window; a shallow rectangular 2-storey bay to the
right, the ground floor channelled and with a similar cornice
over a single-light sash, and the first floor with tripartite
sashes. Glazing bars to ground floor windows only. Dentilled
cornice; mansard attic over right-hand end, with small
open-pedimented dormer. West (left) return wall has (inter
alia) a square tower (former porch) with corner pilasters,
cornice, balustraded parapet, and flagmast. C20 additions to
east and west. Rear: west wing, in similar style, has (inter
alia) a tripartite sash with segmental-pedimented cornice on
consoles. INTERIOR: axial entrance hall from former main
doorway at west end which is now covered but has fanlight with
radiating glazing bars and keystone; fine open-string
staircase; moulded plaster cornices with acanthus modillions;
dining room in west wing with C17 style panelling and
"inglenook" at north end.
Listing NGR: SJ8512290492
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458267
- 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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