No. 139, Barlow Moor Road

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/01/2018

SJ 89 SW, 698-1/8/636

MANCHESTER, BARLOW MOOR ROAD, Barlow Moor (south side), No. 139

(Formerly Listed as: The British Council)

27/04/92

II

Large detached house, now British Council offices (when surveyed). Late C19. Red brick, red tile roof. Square plan plus large porch-cum-staircase on north side. Queen Anne style. Two storeys over cellars, with a string course, deeply coved plastered eaves, and steeply pitched roofs. The entrance front is dominated by a large stair-turret in the centre, which has a full-width balcony on large stone brackets, with wrought-iron railings, the doorway beneath this and a very large canted oriel rising from balcony to eaves, with wooden transoms and mullions including a semicircular light in the centre, and a parapet with central pediment; and a hipped roof with shaped brick upstand including a terracotta panel; the side ranges have only one narrow window at ground floor. East front has (inter alia) a round-headed archway in the centre, and a small 1st-floor oriel to the right (in similar style to that at the front, including upstand above); south front has 2-storey canted bay to right, with cross-windows, parapet and large shaped gable in roof behind. Very tall chimneys. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8377091686