Nos. 12 AND 14, WITHINGTON ROAD

MANCHESTER,

SJ89NW, WITHINGTON ROAD, Whalley Range, 698-1/4/834, Nos.12 AND 14, 03/10/74

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Pair of villas. Mid C19, altered. Stucco on brick, slate roof. Double-depth plan, No.12 to the right double-fronted and No.14 single-fronted, with shallow back extensions. Italianate style. Two storeys with cellars and attics, 5 windows (divided 2+3), symmetrical, with gabled centre breaking forwards; plinth, vermiculated quoins, 1st-floor sill-band, string-course to frieze of raised panels, and paired brackets to projecting eaves. Round-headed doorways flanking the centre (up 3 steps), with fluted Corinthian pilasters, doors with 2 round-headed glazed panels, semi-circular fanlights and bracketed cornices; canted bay windows to left and right, otherwise all windows have moulded shouldered architraves, and all are sashed, those at ground floor without glazing bars and those at 1st floor 4-paned; round-headed attic window with pilastered surround. Ridge chimney and end-wall chimneys. Forms group with Nos 4 and 6 (which match) and Nos 8 and 10 (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8290995634