Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW DENE ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/8/638 (South side) 20/06/88 Nazarene Theological College

GV II

Former private house, now theological college. 1914, by Mark and Dunkerley. Pink brick with some timber framing and plaster infill; graduated stone slate roof. H-plan main block, with long service wing attached to front of left wing. Vernacular Revival style. Main block 2-storeys and attics, 1:3:1 windows, almost symmetrical, with projecting gabled crosswings; central 2-storey gabled timber-framed porch open at ground floor and the upper floor slightly jettied, with a transomed 10-light oriel just below the bressummer; wooden mullioned casement windows of 1, 2 and 3 lights on both floors, and 2 small 3-light flat-roofed dormers in the roof. Transomed 6- and 10-light windows in the left wing, which has an outshut on its outer side, with a single-storey range attached to the front of this; single-storey projection to front of right-hand wing, with splayed corners, 6-light transomed window above. Various tall chimneys. Attached projecting service wing is T-plan, with low single-storey range ternminating in a taller gabled end wing which has a wooden bellcote on the roof. Rear: recessed centre with canted 2-storey bay under hipped roof (the upper floor of this open as a balcony), between coupled-gable wings, the inner gables slightly smaller and and formerly serving as porches, with round-headed arches at ground floor (now enclosed and glazed); semicircular bay windows at ground floor of the outer gables (that to the right now with a brick parapet); transomed windows. Interior: good plasterwork, some segmental barrel vaulted ceilings, etc., open-well staircase with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SJ8404791057

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