Entrance Lodges, Piers, Screen And Gates Of Withington Hospital

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW NELL LANE, Barlow Moor 698-1/8/503 (North side) 03/10/74 Entrance Lodges, piers, Screen and gates of Withington Hospital (Formerly Listed as: NELL LANE, West Didsbury Entrance Lodges, piers, screens and gates of Withington Hospital)

GV II

Pair of entrance lodges to hospital, with linking screens, gate piers and gates. 1854; by Hayley, Son and Hall. Red brick with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roofs; cast-iron screens, gate piers and gates. Each lodge has a tripartite plan consisting of a tall rectangular centre flanked by lower square wings. Italianate style. Each has a 3-storey 1-bay centre and 2-storey 1-bay wings in a symmetrical composition, the centre projecting; with stone plinth, rusticated quoins, 1st-floor sill-band, prominent bracketed eaves, parapets to the wings (each with a pierced arched upstand), and side-wall chimneys; tripartite windows at ground floor, with corniced stone architraves; and at 1st floor a large round-headed window to the centre, with shell tympanum and broad extrados band with keystone and stylised voussoirs, and a Venetian window in each wing, with keyed architrave. Return sides and rear similar, with round-headed windows and doorways at ground floor. The west lodge also has a 2-storeyed extension to the left, with a double projection in the centre and a Venetian window with blocked tympanum. The linking screens have cast-iron open-work piers, bar railings with mid and top bands, and 3 pairs of cast-iron gates. Forms group with Withington Hospital principal administrative block (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8358292283