Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8595 DAISY BANK ROAD, Rusholme
698-1/22/791 (North side)
03/10/74 No.80
Newbury

II

Villa, now hostel. Mid C19, altered. Stucco, now painted green
with white dressings, slate roof. Large roughly rectangular
plan. Two storeys and 3 wide bays, with plinth, rusticated
quoins, string-course, prominent bracketed eaves with 3 small
gables treated as open pediments. The centre has a pilastered
centre panel with a round-headed doorway at ground floor
(altered as a window), a round-headed window at 1st floor, and
a small pedimented gable above the eaves, with a finial. To
the left is a wide but shallow rectangular 2-storey bay which
has 3 round-headed sashed windows on each floor, the outer
windows very narrow and that in the centre at ground floor
flanked by coupled Ionic pilasters, and a hipped roof with
prominent bracket eaves broken in the centre by a pedimental
gable with finial; and to the right a 2-storey canted bay
treated in similar manner. Various ridge chimneys. C20
single-storey addition to left. Right-hand return wall, 3 wide
bays, has C20 porch in centre, and a 2-storey canted bay to
the rear, like that at the front. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8586895809

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