Denison House is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Denison House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-frieze-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Denison House, Denison Road, M14 5RX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 855 953
- Coordinates
- 53.4545, -2.21889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Denison House is a villa, now functioning as a consulate, built in 1862. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features steeply-pitched slate roofs adorned with ridge ornamentation. The building has an H-plan layout with a side wing and is designed in the Gothic style. It stands two storeys tall, with cellars and attics, and has a three-window main range, one-window gabled wings, and a two-window side wing to the left.
The central part of the main block includes a gabled porch at the angle with the right-hand wing, featuring a moulded Tudor-arched outer doorway with a hoodmould. Above this doorway is a cross-window, and to the left, there is a tall transomed four-light Tudor-arched stair-window with cusped lights and Perpendicular tracery. The gable wall of the right wing has a shallow rectangular bay window with mullions and a transom, a cross-window at the first floor with a hoodmould, and a small attic window in the gable. The left wing's gable wall features one cross-window on each floor, with the attic window being Tudor-arched and having tracery in the head along with a hoodmould. The side wing continues to the left and includes a similar window at the first floor, another in an attic gable to the left, and a canted bay window at the ground floor. The building is topped with various ridge chimneys. The rear and interior of the property were not inspected.
Local climate
Denison House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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