Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8595 DENISON ROAD, Rusholme 698-1/22/799 (South side) 03/10/74 Denison House

II

Villa, now consulate. 1862. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, steeply-pitched slate roofs with ridge ornament. H-plan plus side wing. Gothic style. Two storeys with cellars and attics; 3-window main range with 1-window gabled wings and 2-window side wing to left. The centre of the main block has a gabled porch in the angle with the right-hand wing, with moulded Tudor-arched outer doorway and hoodmould, a cross-window above this and a tall transomed 4-light Tudor-arched stair-window to the left, with cusped lights and Perpendicular tracery; the gable wall of the wing to the right has a shallow rectangular bay window with mullions and transom, a cross-window at 1st floor with a hoodmould, and a small attic window in the gable; the gable wall of the left wing has one cross-window on each floor, that to the attic Tudor-arched with tracery in the head and a hoodmould; and the side wing continued to the left has (inter alia) a similar window at 1st floor and another in an attic gable to the left, and a canted bay window at ground floor. Various ridge chimneys. Rear and interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8556295326

External Links

• Wikidata Q26512521

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  For the Record
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)