Cemetery office at Philips Park Cemetery

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SJ89NE 698-1/5/743

MANCHESTER Miles Platting HULME HALL LANE (East side) Cemetery office at Philips Park Cemetery

20/06/88

GV II

Cemetery office. 1867, by Paull and Ayliffe. Coursed squared sandstone rubble, steeply-pitched slate roof. Irregular plan in two parts. Eclectic Gothic style. Two storeys with central tower, plus high single-storey wing to right, 3:3 bays (irregular); square tower with diagonal buttress to left, segmental-headed doorway at ground floor, cusped transomed lancet above door, very thin looplight to third stage, foliated cornice, ashlar top stage with corner shafts and inset clockfaces, and tall pyramidal roof with lucarnes and apex finial. Transomed window to left; transomed three-light window to right and half-dormer above this with cross-window; gable chimney. Wing to right has three cross-windows and a doorway with cusped head, tall hipped roof, and four-bay return wall with two tall cross-windows rising into a hipped dormer and flanked by cross-windows.

Listing NGR: SJ8678699272