Greygarth Hall

MANCHESTER

SJ8595 LOWER PARK ROAD, Rusholme 698-1/22/801 (East side) No.1 Greygarth Hall

GV II

Villa, now hall of residence. c.1880-90. Yellow brick with some sandstone dressings, hipped slate roofs. Irregular plan. Eclectic style. Two storeys with basement and attics, a 3-bay west front with slightly-projecting wings flanking a 3-storey stair-tower, and a gabled glazed porch attached to the right-hand side. Two string-courses between floors, prominent moulded eaves with modillions, pediments over the bays and pyramidal roof to the tower. The tower has a large round-headed stair-window with arched centre light and radiating glazing bars and a small ornamental stone balcony, a central pilaster strip above this and 2 small round-headed windows to the top floor; the left wing has a 2-storey canted bay which has sashed windows with margin panes (those at ground floor segmental-headed); the right wing has a segmental-headed window at ground floor with 2 round-headed sashed lights, and a tripartite window at 1st floor with stone pilasters and narrow sashed lights (2 in the centre). Various tall corniced chimneys. Projecting rear wing to rear of porch; C20 single-storey addition attached to right of porch. Left return wall has (inter alia) a large tripartite window on each floor towards the rear, and a single-storey wing to the rear of this. Interior: some elaborate decoration, including doorways with eared architraves, moulded plaster friezes, pilastered hallway including tympana with lilies.

Listing NGR: SJ8539995627