Park House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Villa, hall of residence.
Park House
- WRENN ID
- noble-chimney-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Villa, hall of residence
- Address
- Park House, 2, Lower Park Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 853 955
- Coordinates
- 53.45681, -2.22251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park House is a mid-19th century villa that now serves as a hall of residence. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone and features a slate roof. The building has a double-pile plan and is designed in the Gothick style, consisting of two storeys and three symmetrical bays with a projecting gabled center.
The facade includes a string course and projected eaves that lead to steeply-pitched roofs. The central section has a single-storey bay, which was likely the original porch, featuring a 2-light window with a traceried overlight in the center and narrow sash side windows, all beneath a hoodmould. Above this, there is a parapet with a triangular-headed upstand that contains a shield. The first floor has a 2-light sash window with arched lights and a hoodmould.
The outer bays are characterized by narrow two-storeyed canted bay windows, each with three arched lights on both floors, with the lower lights being cusped. The ridge chimney adds to the architectural interest. Each gable wall has a similar but wider canted bay, with 2-light sashes at the center. The south side features three bays in total, including two gables and a recessed center, along with other sash windows in a similar style, including a shallow rectangular 4-light bay window. The north side has various 20th-century additions. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Park House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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