Behrens Hall

MANCHESTER

SJ89SE OLD HALL LANE, FALLOWFIELD, Rusholme 698-1/9/809 (South side) 20/06/88 Behrens Hall (Formerly Listed as: OLD HALL LANE, FALLOWFIELD, Rusholme (South side) Ashburne Hall(original house only))

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Formerly known as: The Oaks OLD HALL LANE Fallowfield. Large house, now part of university hall of residence. 1835-8, for Robert Ogden, cotton spinner; altered. Scored stucco on brick, with sandstone ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof. Deep rectangular plan. Classical style. Two storeys over cellars, 3 bays, symmetrical; with stone plinth, broad pilasters to the outer bays forming segmental-headed blank arches. The ground floor has a large pedimented stone porch (up 7 steps) with 4 Ionic columns raised on a plinth, moulded frieze, and pediment with apex acroterion, protecting a wide square-headed doorway which has double doors, an overlight with fan-pattern tracery, and round-headed side windows with margin panes including roundels; and two windows sashed without glazing bars, with engraved sills. The 1st floor has three 12-pane sashed windows, that in the centre with a corniced architrave. Long return walls with various sashed windows, that to the right with a canted bay window to the ground floor front room. Interior: entrance lobby screen which has double doors and side windows all with round-headed glazing like the side windows to the door; pilastered entrance hall; fine imperial staircase with elaborately decorated cast-iron balusters and wreathed mahogany handrails, illuminated by a glazed dome; panelled mahogany doors and architraves; some moulded plaster friezes and original fireplaces. History: originally known as "The Oaks"; presented to the university, partly as gift, by Behrens family 1906-8.

Listing NGR: SJ8569394420