WESTWOOD HOUSE

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:: WESTWOOD HOUSE, 1-6, RABY STREET

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 456961
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.