Nazarene Theological College is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Theological college. 4 related planning applications.
Nazarene Theological College
- WRENN ID
- standing-keystone-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Theological college
- Address
- Nazarene Theological College, Dene Road, M20 2GU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 840 910
- Coordinates
- 53.41609, -2.24148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nazarene Theological College is a former private house that has been converted into a theological college. It was built in 1914 by the architectural firm Mark and Dunkerley. The building is constructed of pink brick, featuring some timber framing and plaster infill, and has a graduated stone slate roof. It is designed in the Vernacular Revival style and has an H-plan layout, with a long service wing attached to the front of the left wing.
The main block is two stories tall with attics and features a nearly symmetrical facade with a 1:3:1 window arrangement. It has projecting gabled crosswings and a central two-story gabled timber-framed porch that is open at the ground floor, with the upper floor slightly jettied. Below the bressummer, there is a transomed 10-light oriel window. The windows throughout the building are wooden mullioned casement windows with 1, 2, and 3 lights on both floors, and there are two small 3-light flat-roofed dormers in the roof.
The left wing includes transomed 6- and 10-light windows and has an outshut on its outer side, with a single-storey range attached to the front. The right-hand wing features a single-storey projection with splayed corners and a 6-light transomed window above. The building is adorned with various tall chimneys.
The attached projecting service wing is T-shaped, with a low single-storey range that terminates in a taller gabled end wing, which has a wooden bellcote on the roof. At the rear, there is a recessed center with a canted two-storey bay under a hipped roof, with the upper floor open as a balcony. This bay is situated between coupled-gable wings, where the inner gables are slightly smaller and were originally porches, now enclosed and glazed with round-headed arches at the ground floor. The outer gables feature semicircular bay windows, with the one on the right now having a brick parapet, and there are transomed windows throughout.
Inside, the college boasts good plasterwork, some segmental barrel vaulted ceilings, and an open-well staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
Nazarene Theological College 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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