Barlow Hall

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW BARLOW HALL ROAD, Barlow Moor 698-1/8/493 (South side) 03/10/74 Barlow Hall (Formerly Listed as: BARLOW HALL ROAD, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy Barlow Hall)

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Also known as: Chorlton-cum-Hardy Golf Club BARLOW HALL ROAD Barlow Moor. Manor house, now golf club. C16 and C17 with C18 and C19 additions and alterations; badly damaged by fire in 1879, and partly reduced in C20; altered, with C20 additions. Mostly brick, with some surviving timber-framing; slate roofs. Formerly 4 ranges enclosing a courtyard, but east range demolished. Two storeys, without regular fenestration. The principal features of interest now are: the surviving north-east oriel or bay of the former hall in the west range, which is timber-framed, jettied and gabled, with a sandstone plinth, 12-light wooden mullion-and-transom window at ground floor (with much original glass: see below), jetty bressummer with mouchette carving, stud-and-rail framing at 1st floor with 3-light casement window (altered), and bargeboards with pierced quatrefoils; 2 timber-framed panels at 1st floor of the south side of the north range, which have short studs, quatrefoil panelling, and C20 casements; the former entrance porch on the north side of this range, which is of brick, 2-storeyed, gabled, and has a cambered timber lintel to the former waggon entry (now blocked, re-using a carved bargeboard or bressummer as a lower lintel); and at the west end of the south side of the south range an early C19 single-storey semi-circular bay which has French windows with margin panes, flanked by 12-pane sashes. West range has gabled wing at north end, but is otherwise now entirely covered by C20 single-storey lean-to glazed loggia. Interior: oriel window with some stained glass shields and one pane lettered "1574"; egg-and-dart frieze to south-west bow window; roof of west range said to have old timbers. History: was home of Blessed Ambrose Barlow, born 1585 and martyred at Lancaster 1641.

Listing NGR: SJ8223392055