Plymouth Grove Hotel

SJ8596 698-1/21/617 03/10/74

MANCHESTER

PLYMOUTH GROVE, Chorlton-On-Medlock (North East side) No.65 Plymouth Grove Hotel

II

Public house. 1873. Red brick with sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Square plan plus unusual canted loggia with clock-tower to east side. Three storeys and cellars, 3 windows, with prominent 1st-floor balcony carried round, 2nd-floor sill-band and pilasters, shaped parapet with raised centre lettered "PLYMOUTH GROVE HOTEL"; central doorway with altered doors under projected centre of balcony supported by coupled columns, flanked by canted bay windows also under the balcony; segmental-headed windows to all floors, those at ground floor with keyed segmental stone lintels, those at 2nd floor shorter and furnished with balconettes. The balcony is cantilevered out, carried round the front and the loggia, and furnished with cast-iron railings; the loggia forms a wide diagonal projection to the ground floor of the right-hand return wall, 7 bays with a central entrance framed by columns, and arcaded round-headed windows either side with shafts; the tower above this entrance has a narrow rectangular body and a disproportionately large head, the former enclosed by slender columns with crocket caps and the latter with a prominent 2-stage bracketed cornice, and a domed roof with pedimented clock-faces a small but elaborate cupola.

Listing NGR: SJ8528096445