Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8497 NELSON STREET, Chorlton-On-Medlock
698-1/21/602 (North side)
10/06/74 No.62
The Pankhurst Centre

GV II*

One of a pair of villas, now part of The Pankhurst Centre
(with No.60 to the right, q.v.). c.1840, altered. Red brick
(the left side rendered and mostly scored), hipped slate roof.
Two storeys and 3 bays, formerly symmetrical, with pedimented
centre breaking forwards slightly; stone plinth, modillioned
eaves cornice; central ellipical-headed doorway with set-in
doorcase of slender Tuscan columns with entablature and
cornice, panelled door and plain fanlight; 4-pane sashed
windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, except ground
floor right which has added rectangular bay window (now
painted black) with slated pentice roof. Left return wall has
(inter alia) a 2-storey canted bay to the rear, with 2-centred
arched windows which have intersecting glazing bars and
hoodmoulds. Interior not inspected. History: home of Mrs
Emmeline Pankhurst at the time when she founded the Women's
Social and Political Union in 1903 (part of the Suffragette
Movement).

Listing NGR: SJ8500296292

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Pankhurst Centre at Wikipedia
• Pankhurst Centre official website
• Wikidata Q7131318

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