2, Conyngham Road

MANCHESTER

SJ8595 CONYNGHAM ROAD, Rusholme 698-1/22/787 (West side) 03/10/74 No.2

GV II

Villa, now office. c.1840, probably by Richard Lane (who laid out Victoria park in 1836); altered. White-painted render (replacing original stucco), hipped slate roof. Roughly rectangular plan on east-west axis, with short service wing at west end. Late Georgian classical style. Two storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical, the centre slightly recessed, plus one-bay service wing; with plinth, deep 1st-floor sill-band, prominent bracketed eaves. Rectangular pilasterd porch in the centre, with Ionic columns distyle in antis, plain frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course; one tall 15-pane sashed window to each side at ground floor, three 12-pane windows at 1st floor, sashed except that to the 1st bay, which is false. Blocked or blind windows to the wing. Three-bay left return wall with similar fenestration to the front. Rear (garden front) has tripartite sashed windows on both floors of the centre, flanked by two 2-storey segmental bows with similar windows. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8556595567