Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen and Gates of Withington Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Entrance lodges.

Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen and Gates of Withington Hospital

WRENN ID
ragged-timber-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Entrance lodges
Address
Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen and Gates of Withington Hospital, Nell Lane
OS grid reference
SJ 835 922
Coordinates
53.4271, -2.24855
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrance lodges, piers, screen, and gates of Withington Hospital are a pair of lodges built in 1854 by Hayley, Son and Hall. They are constructed of red brick with sandstone dressings and feature hipped slate roofs, along with cast-iron screens, gate piers, and gates. Each lodge has a tripartite plan, consisting of a tall rectangular central section flanked by lower square wings, designed in an Italianate style. The central section is three stories high and one bay wide, while the wings are two stories high and one bay wide, creating a symmetrical appearance with a projecting center.

Architectural details include a stone plinth, rusticated quoins, a sill-band at the first floor, prominent bracketed eaves, and parapets on the wings, each with a pierced arched upstand. The ground floor features tripartite windows with corniced stone architraves, while the first floor has a large round-headed window in the center, adorned with a shell tympanum and a broad extrados band with a keystone and stylised voussoirs, alongside Venetian windows in each wing with keyed architraves. The return sides and rear of the lodges are similar, with round-headed windows and doorways at the ground floor.

The west lodge includes a two-storey extension to the left, which has a double projection in the center and a Venetian window with a blocked tympanum. The linking screens are made of cast-iron open-work piers and bar railings with mid and top bands, featuring three pairs of cast-iron gates. This structure forms a group with the principal administrative block of Withington Hospital.

Local climate

Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen and Gates of Withington Hospital sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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