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Latitude: 53.4217 / 53°25'18"N
Longitude: -2.2457 / 2°14'44"W
OS Eastings: 383770
OS Northings: 391686
OS Grid: SJ837916
Mapcode National: GBR DXRW.M4
Mapcode Global: WHB9V.G8V5
Plus Code: 9C5VCQC3+MP
Entry Name: No. 139, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
Listing Date: 27 April 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197801
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387915
ID on this website: 101197801
Location: West Didsbury, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M20
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Didsbury West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: West Didsbury Christ Church and St Christopher Withington
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/01/2018
SJ 89 SW, 698-1/8/636
MANCHESTER,
BARLOW MOOR ROAD,
Barlow Moor (south side),
No. 139
(Formerly Listed as: The British Council)
27/04/92
II
Large detached house, now British Council offices (when surveyed). Late C19.
Red brick, red tile roof. Square plan plus large
porch-cum-staircase on north side. Queen Anne style. Two
storeys over cellars, with a string course, deeply coved
plastered eaves, and steeply pitched roofs. The entrance front
is dominated by a large stair-turret in the centre, which has
a full-width balcony on large stone brackets, with
wrought-iron railings, the doorway beneath this and a very
large canted oriel rising from balcony to eaves, with wooden
transoms and mullions including a semicircular light in the
centre, and a parapet with central pediment; and a hipped roof
with shaped brick upstand including a terracotta panel; the
side ranges have only one narrow window at ground floor. East
front has (inter alia) a round-headed archway in the centre,
and a small 1st-floor oriel to the right (in similar style to
that at the front, including upstand above); south front has
2-storey canted bay to right, with cross-windows, parapet and
large shaped gable in roof behind. Very tall chimneys.
Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8377091686
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