St Marys House

MANCHESTER

SJ89NW PARSONAGE STREET, Hulme 698-1/4/717 (North East side) 23/04/81 St Mary's House (Formerly Listed as: PARSONAGE STREET, Hulme (North East side) St Mary's Rectory)

GV II

Rectory, now manse. 1855-60. Brown brick with sandstone dressings and red tiled roof. Rectangular plan parallel to street. Vernacular Gothic style. Two storeys and 4 bays, the centre treated as a one-and-a-half storey hall range and the ends as gabled wings, that to the right half-hipped; with a buttress in the centre of the 1st bay and another between the 2nd and 3rd bays (both with offsets); the entrance, to the left of the 2nd bay, has a shouldered doorway and double doors with ornamental strap hinges, and a quatrefoil overlight, set in a 2-centred stone arch with chamfered surround. The windows are mostly stone-mullioned with straight stone lintels and segmental brick relieving arches, 2 at ground floor of the main range with cusped lights and those above set in half-dormers with hipped roofs; in addition the 1st floor of the 1st bay has a large arched window of 3 arched lights with multifoils in the head, and the 4th bay has an attic window. The left gable wall has 2 windows like those at ground floor of the main range; the right-hand gable has an extruded chimney stack. Interior: moulded 2-centred arch between entrance hall and stairwell; open-well staircase with 2 brattished rails. Forms group with Church of St Mary UPPER MOSS LANE (q.v.), St Mary's Junior School and schoolyard railings CHICHESTER ROAD (q.v.) and Moss Side People's centre ST MARY'S STREET (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8341796046