807 AND 809, WILMSLOW ROAD

MANCHESTER

SJ8490 WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/25/663 (North side) No.807 and 809 Formerly listed as: WILSMLOW ROAD, Didsbury (North side) No 807 The Grove

GV II

Pair of houses. Probably c.1870. Mostly brown brick in header bond, with some red brick, sandstone dressings, and some applied "half-timbering"; slate roofs. Irregular plan with tower to left and projecting wing to right (probably an early C20 addition). North German vernacular style. Two storeys except for 3-storey tower, 2:3:3 windows, with some red brick bands. The centre has a doorway to the left, with a trefoil stone head, a large 3-light casement to the right, and 3 windows at 1st floor (1, 2 and 1 lights) each under a gablet projected from the roof, the centre larger. The tower to the left has a canted bay window at ground floor, 2 single-light windows at 1st floor, another single-light window at 2nd floor under a projected steeply-pitched half-dormer roof, corbelled corners, and a tall steeply-pitched hipped roof (the return side has, inter alia, 2 similar gableted windows at this level). The wing to the right has (inter alia) a recessed canted bay window at ground floor, the upper floor carried on stone columns either side, a stone balcony with cast-iron railings to the left 1st-floor window, and ornamental half-timbering in the gable. Part of small but distinctive settlement (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 (q.v.) and Nos 803-5 Wilmslow Road (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8490290419