Barlow Hall

Barlow Hall is a manor house that has been converted into a golf club, located on Barlow Hall Road in Manchester. The building dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, with additions and alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It suffered significant fire damage in 1879 and was partly reduced in the 20th century, with further alterations and additions made during that time. The structure is primarily brick, with some remaining timber-framing and slate roofs. Originally, it consisted of four ranges surrounding a courtyard, but the east range has been demolished.

The hall is two storeys high and does not have a regular pattern of windows. Notable features include the surviving north-east oriel or bay in the west range, which is timber-framed, jettied, and gabled. This section has a sandstone plinth and a 12-light wooden mullion-and-transom window at the ground floor, retaining much of its original glass. The jetty bressummer features mouchette carving, and the first floor has stud-and-rail framing with an altered 3-light casement window, along with bargeboards that have pierced quatrefoils.

On the south side of the north range, there are two timber-framed panels at the first floor with short studs, quatrefoil panelling, and 20th-century casements. The former entrance porch on the north side of this range is made of brick, is two storeys tall, and has a gabled roof. It features a cambered timber lintel over a former waggon entry, which is now blocked and reuses a carved bargeboard or bressummer as a lower lintel. At the west end of the south side of the south range, there is an early 19th-century single-storey semi-circular bay with French windows that have margin panes, flanked by 12-pane sash windows.

The west range includes a gabled wing at the north end but is mostly covered by a 20th-century single-storey lean-to glazed loggia. Inside, there is an oriel window with some stained glass shields, including one pane inscribed "1574", and an egg-and-dart frieze in the south-west bow window. The roof of the west range is said to contain old timbers. Historically, Barlow Hall was the home of Blessed Ambrose Barlow, who was born in 1585 and martyred in Lancaster in 1641.