Salfordian

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SD31NE PARK CRESCENT 664-1/2/140 (North side) 15/11/72 No.37 Salfordian

GV II

Villa, now holiday hotel for elderly. c1870, altered; C20 annexe to rear. Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. Eclectic style with some Gothic features. Irregular double-pile plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement; 3-window range. The first bay breaks forward under a gable and the third has a large bow with a conical roof. Chamfered stone plinth, first-floor sill band and wooden bracketed eaves. The centre has a shallow rectangular porch with brattished parapet, 2-centred arched doorway with colonnettes, C20 double doors, a quatrefoil in the tympanum, and a moulded head with foliated stops. At first floor a 1/1 sash with 2-centred arched head. The left bay has windows of 3, 2 and one lights on successive floors, those at ground and first floors with colonnette mullions and arched heads (segmental at ground floor and 2-centred above). The bow, which is 5-sided at ground floor and semicircular above, has 5 1/1 sashes on each floor, those on the upper floors with stone colonnette mullions. The right-hand return has a 2-storey 5-sided bay window. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms group with No.39 (qv), No.41 (qv) and No.45 (qv), the last of which is the same design in reflected reversal.

Listing NGR: SD3501818438