Langdale Hall And Attached Former Coach House

SJ8595 698-1/22/814 03/10/74

MANCHESTER UPPER PARK ROAD, Rusholme (West side)

No.18 Langdale Hall and attached former coach house

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Villa, now hall of residence. Later C19, altered and slightly enlarged. Coursed dressed sandstone, fishscale slate roof. Double-pile plan. Gothic style. Two storeys and attic, 3 bays, with a narrow entrance bay between projecting gabled outer bays, 1:1:2 windows at 1st floor; plinth, bracketed eaves and barge-boarded gables (that to the left carved but the other replaced with plain boards, both with finials). The centre has an open porch with segmental-pointed central arch, moulded jambs, narrow side lights with ogee tracery and brattished parapet with blind trefoils; and a cross-window above. The projecting gables have large canted mullion-and-transom bay windows with brattished parapets; the left has a 6-light mullion-and-transom window at 1st floor, with a hoodmould, and a small blank shield above with arched hoodmould; the right has 2 cross-windows at 1st floor, with linked hoodmoulds, and a mullioned 2-light attic window. Left return wall has added conservatory; right-hand return wall has added single-storey stone bay with canted corners, mullioned windows and brattished parapet, and beyond that a gabled wing projects. Former coach-house attached at right angles to rear corner, one-and-a-half storeys, with segmental-pointed entrance under C20 canopy, small gable dormer above, steeply-pitched fishscale slate roof, etc.

Listing NGR: SJ 85506 95394