Philip Godlee Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. House, nursing home. 1 related planning application.

Philip Godlee Lodge

WRENN ID
grim-newel-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
House, nursing home
Address
Philip Godlee Lodge, 842 Wilmslow Road, M20 2DS
OS grid reference
SJ 846 904
Coordinates
53.41101, -2.23202
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Philip Godlee Lodge is a house that was being used as a nursing home at the time of listing and was converted into apartments in 2000. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and has been altered. The building features roughcast render on brick with sandstone dressings painted white and slate roofs. The main block is square and double-depth, facing east, with an L-shaped wing on the south side.

The house is two storeys tall, with the main block displaying a symmetrical three-window facade. It has prominent corner pilasters, a deep plain frieze, and a notable projected eaves. There is a central Ionic porch accessed by two steps, which protects a glazed and panelled door along with side windows, all beneath a large overlight with intricate geometrical glazing bars. The windows are sashed without glazing bars and have reeded architraves. The hipped roof features two tall ridge chimneys.

The slightly lower wing to the left has similar corner pilasters and features one window on the ground floor and three above, with the ground floor window altered. The north side includes a two-storey pilastered bay and 20th-century additions. At the rear, the ground floor of the main block boasts a fine wrought-iron verandah with delicately latticed standards and a frieze that incorporates anthemions. There are glazed doors in the center and a segmental bay window to the right, with the rear otherwise resembling the front.

Inside, the entrance hall features an Ionic screen that is distyle in antis, and there is an open-well staircase with cast-iron balusters.

Local climate

Philip Godlee Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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  • Sale history — 72 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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