The Rampant Lion Public House And Attached Screen Wall

MANCHESTER

SJ8595 ANSON ROAD, Rusholme 698-1/22/786 (North East side) 02/05/73 No.17 The Rampant Lion PH and attached screen wall (Formerly Listed as: ANSON ROAD, Rusholme (North East side) No.17 Milverton Lodge)

GV II

Villa, now public house. Mid to later C19; altered. Red brick mostly in header bond but with some courses of stretchers, with sandstone dressings (now painted white), slate roof in zig-zag pattern of blue and grey, with ornamented ridge. Rectangular plan with the appearance of hall-and-crosswing. Gothic style. Two storeys with cellar and attic, a 3-window facade with a slightly-projected gabled portion to the left and a gabled wing to the right with 2-storey canted bay; chamfered stone plinth, buttressed entrance, offsets to the portion on the left, and steeply pitched gables with stone copings. The central entrance has a segmental-pointed doorway with heavily moulded surround and a gablet containing a blind quatrefoil; all the windows have quoined jambs, segmental-pointed heads and cusped traceried heads to the lights: 4 and 3 lights to the left, 2 lights over the door, 1, 2 and 1 lights in the canted bay; in addition, the left gable has a quatrefoil set in a diamond, and the right-hand gable has a small single-light window (a flagmast now attached to the left of this). Tall chimney rising from junction with wing. High screen wall attached to left corner; some windows in left gable similar to those at front; C20 single-storey addition to right-hand return wall. Interior altered.

Listing NGR: SJ8577395565