Buile Hill

SALFORD

SJ79NE ECCLES OLD ROAD 949-1/3/51 (South side) 18/01/80 Buile Hill (Formerly Listed as: ECCLES OLD ROAD (South side) Buile Hill (Salford Natural History Museum))

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Mansion, now Salford Mining Museum. 1825-7. By Sir Charles Barry, with upper storey and porte-cochere added c1860 by Walters. Ashlar with hipped Welsh slate roof with central open pavilion with stone balustrade. Restrained classical style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, shallow projecting 2-window wings each side of entrance block with porte-cochere, further 2-window wing recessed to right, and single storey wing originally housing billiard room advanced to right of this. Porte-cochere has 2 fluted Doric columns carrying entablature with triglyph frieze. Tripartite windows above entrance, divided by plain pilasters. 2-pane sash windows throughout, the sills forming continuous band. Garden front similarly disposed, with recessed entrance block, the doorway in plain Doric architrave forming porch running between the slightly advanced wings. These have shallow squared bay windows to ground floor with plain pilasters forming tripartite windows and balustraded parapets. Tripartite windows throughout to this elevation. End wall stack, with front wall stack in right hand wing, and others concealed in the central roof pavilion. INTERIOR: planning obscured by insertion of museum displays, but cantilevered stone staircase with cast-iron balustrading retained in right hand bay.

Listing NGR: SJ7983499356