Westwood House
WESTWOOD HOUSE, 1-6, RABY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270885
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Westwood House
- Statutory Address:
- WESTWOOD HOUSE, 1-6, RABY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270885
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Westwood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTWOOD HOUSE, 1-6, RABY STREET
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:
- WESTWOOD HOUSE, 1-6, RABY STREET
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 83927 95669
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89NW RABY STREET, Moss Side 698-1/4/761 (South side) Westwood House, Nos 1 to 6
II
Block of 6 almshouses. Dated 1876; slightly altered. Red brick with matching terracotta dressings, C20 red pantiled roof. E-plan formed by main range with 3 rear wings. Flemish Gothic style. One-and-a-half storeys, 5 bays (0:1:2:1:0 windows), symmetrical, with a wide centre flanked by projecting gabled bays. Double plinth with chamfered stone copings, 1st-floor band (the centre with stone panelling inscribed "IN MEMORIAM E.M.R. 1876", and the wings enriched with terracotta panels), gables with terracotta enrichment and stepped stone copings with kneelers and apex finials; 4 tall clustered chimneys on the front ridge and one on each of the side wings. The 2 gabled bays each have flanking porches treated as buttresses, with 2-centred arched doorways which have stepped surrounds, 2 narrow single-light windows at ground floor with separate hoodmoulds and similar windows at 1st floor coupled under one hoodmould; the wider centre has 2 pairs of similarly coupled windows at ground floor and a large half-dormer at 1st floor with a hipped roof and a 5-light window (the centre light blind) with a hoodmould. The gable ends of the front range have similar fenestration, and small gabled porches at the junction with the sidewings. Interior not inspected. History: erected by John Robinson of Atlas Works in memory of his sister Edith Marianne Robinson.
Listing NGR: SJ8392795669
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456961
- 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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