Xaverian College, Part Of, And Attached Archway

SJ8595 698-1/22/804 03/10/74

MANCHESTER LOWER PARK ROAD, Rusholme (West side)

No.8 Xaverian College, part of, and attached archway

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Formerly known as: No.8 Firwood LOWER PARK ROAD Rusholme. Villa, now part of 6th form college. 1874-5, by Alfred Waterhouse, for T.R.Heatherington; altered. Red brick with blue brick bands (etc), tiled roofs with cockscomb ridges. Roughly rectangular plan (plus later additions to rear). Two-and-a-half storeys plus a tower; with 2 saw-tooth bands between floors, steeply-pitched gabled roofs, (etc). At the right-hand corner, in the angle between the front range and the rear wing, is a rectangular tower which has a gabled wooden porch on its north side, with open sides and fishscale tiled roof, various small windows, a shield in the east side, a stylised Lombard frieze and a steep saddleback roof with cresting to the ridge. To the left of the tower is a diagonally-set gabled bay which has 2 tall sashed windows at ground floor, 2 similar windows and a balcony with wrought-iron railings at 1st floor, and coupled smaller windows above; at the left end of the facade is another gabled bay which has 3 similar windows at ground and 1st floors and coupled windows above, the ground floor windows protected by a tiled pentice roof; and the main range between these bays has a dormer window with half-hipped roof and finial. Most windows have square-paned leaded glazing, some with stained glass. The left return wall (south front) is longer and has similar fenestration including a pentice to the ground-floor, and 2 similar dormers. Attached to the north side is a tall 2-centred archway with steeply pitched gable and ball finial.

Listing NGR: SJ 85350 95433