Marylands

SJ8595 698-1/22/805

MANCHESTER LOWER PARK ROAD, Rusholme (West side)

Marylands

II

GV

Villa, now annex to 6th form college. c.1870-80. Grey and yellow brick with dressings of sandstone ashlar and some red brick, steeply-pitched slate roofs with red cockscomb ridge tiles. L-shaped plan. Gothic style. Two storeys and attic, 3 bays, asymmetrical, with a gabled bay to the left and a larger gabled bay to the right; red brick bands on 3 levels and parallel to the gables, stylised Lombard friezes. The centre has an elaborate arched doorway offset left, with set-in shafts and 2-centred arch broken by the lintel, the head banded and containing a multifoil overlight, and a steeply-pitched gablet with apex finial; above this, a half-dormer with 2 narrow sashed windows and half-hipped roof, and to the right a mullioned 2-light stairwindow with segmental-headed sashed lights and a deep stone lintel with small multifoil lights. The gabled bay to the left (breaking forwards slightly) has a 2-light bay window with sashes, and coupled segmental-headed sashes at 1st floor set in 2-centred arches with decorated heads; the wider bay to the right has a large segmental 3-light bow window at ground floor, with columnar stone mullions, carved heads, and 6-pane sashes with vertical glazing bars; a 3-light sashed window at 1st floor with similar mullions, and an attic window like that at 1st floor of the other gable. Tall ridge chimneys. South front of 4 bays in similar style, with unequal gables to the 1st and 3rd bays, and large half-dormer windows to the 2nd and 4th bays, with hipped roofs. Interior: original features in similar style, including staircase, doorways, etc.

Listing NGR: SJ 85338 95522