WILMSLOW ROAD (See details for further address information)

MANCHESTER

SJ8490 WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/25/657 (North side) 17 The Grove

GV II

House. Probably c.1870; altered. Brown brick in header bond, with some red brick, sandstone dressings, and some applied "half-timbering"; slate roof. Rectangular plan. North German vernacular style. Two storeys, a gabled 5-window facade (the centre window blind), with buttressed corners, bands of red brick between the openings, ornamental half-timbering in the gable (the lower 2 bands now missing but the pattern visible in remaining paintwork), and projecting verges with bargeboards and apex finial. The doorway, offset right of centre, has a recessed panelled and glazed door and rectangular stone lintel; the ground floor has 2 large 3-light windows, the 1st floor has four 2-light windows (the outer 2 shorter), all these windows with raised sills and rectangular stone lintels, and the 1st, 3rd and 5th at 1st floor with red brick relieving arches over. Tall side-wall chimneys. rear and interior not inspected. Part of small but distinctive settlement, 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 other items in The Grove including Nos 803-5 and No.807 Wilmslow Road (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8490390433