Withington Hospital (Principal Administrative Block)

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW NELL LANE, Barlow Moor 698-1/8/504 (North side) 03/10/74 Withington Hospital (Principal Administrative Block) (Formerly Listed as: NELL LANE, West Didsbury Withington Hospital)

GV II

Hospital. 1854, by Hayley, Son and Hall, for Chorlton Union. Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Cruciform plan, with long wings to left and right, chapel projecting forward at the centre with a tower at the junction, and a rear wing. CHAPEL. A tall single-storey 7-bay range of brick with 3-bay entrance front of sandstone ashlar: this has a projected gabled centre which has pilastered corners and a 3-bay arcade of super-imposed openings with Tuscan columns and entablature to ground floor and Corinthian colonnettes above, a central doorway with fanlight and 3 round-headed windows with radiating glazing bars above, a roundel in the gable and bracketed gable coping with a bellcote-style feature on the apex; rusticated side bays with round-headed arches containing large round-headed windows with radiating glazing bars, bracketed cornices, and parapets with shaped upstand features. The brick side walls have windows similar to those at the front, with stone impost bands and elongated keystones. The tower, breaking through the roof at the north end, is also of ashlar, square, Italianate in style, with a modillioned cornice near the base, a short 1st stage with dentilled cornice, and a tall belfry stage which has corner pilasters, a round-headed arch in each side containing a louvred window of 2 round-headed lights, a prominent bracketed cornice and pyramidal roof with weathervane. EAST AND WEST WINGS. Three-storey 18-window ranges, with stone plinths, rusticated quoins, 1st-floor sill-bands, string-courses over the top floor windows, bracketed eaves and hipped roofs with cut-down ridge chimneys. The inner bays and the 3 outer bays break forwards slightly and are quoined, the inner having one 3-light mullioned window on each floor, and the outer having stone architraves to all the windows, those at ground floor segmental-headed and those in the centre at 1st and 2nd floors tripartite, all sashed with glazing bars. The long intermediate ranges have segmental-headed windows and doors at ground floor, 12- and 9-pane sashes at 1st and 2nd floors, with flat-arched heads and keystones. REAR WING. 2 storeys and basement, a 10-bay range, the 4 bays nearest the main block with unhorned 12-pane sashes, and the other bays each with one large round-headed window with glazing bars (45 panes). Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8363092311