Emmanuel Vicarage

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW BARLOW MOOR ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/8/634 (North side) No.6 Emmanuel Vicarage

GV II

Vicarage to church of Emmanuel, now parish office and vicarage. Probably c.1858; enlarged in late C19. Red brick with sandstone dressings and graduated green slate roof. Double-pile plan, plus later addition to rear. Gothic style. Two storeys over cellar, an asymmetrical 3-window facade with a large gable to the left, a smaller gable to the right, and a narrow bay between these with a gabled porch overlapping to both sides. The porch, up 6 steps, has a moulded 4-centred arched outer doorway with a hoodmould, and a steeply-pitched coped gable; above this is a small 2-light window, and to each side on each floor a large 3-light window, all these windows square headed, with stone surrounds including slender mullions and cusped tracery in the heads of the lights, and straight dripmoulds over. Coped gables, and extruded gable chimneys. Rear gable of right-hand return wall has windows like those at front (3 lights at ground floor, 2 lights above). Rear addition. Interior altered. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ8459091333