Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8595 LOWER PARK ROAD, Rusholme
698-1/22/803 (East side)
03/10/74 No.3
Ward Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWER PARK ROAD, Rusholme
No.3
Ward Hall or Stoneywood)

GV II

Villa, now annex to Xaverian College. c.1840, altered. Stucco
on brick, with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof.
Roughly rectangular plan formed by double-depth front block
with back extensions. Two storeys over basement, 3 bays,
symmetrical, with narrow pedimented centre breaking forwards;
high stone plinth with keyed segmental-arched basement
windows, rusticated quoins, 1st-floor sill-band, frieze
(stripped at time of survey), and dentilled cornice and
pediment. The centre has a flight of steps up to a porch of 4
columns with debased Ionic caps, Tuscan pilasters, frieze with
panel lettered "CONCORDIA RES PARVAE CRESCUNT", moulded
cornice on consoles and low blocking course. The ground floor
has tall sashed windows with pedimented architraves; the 1st
floor has shorter sashed winndows with moulded architraves,
all these windows have margin panes and all except that to the
right at 1st floor have 4 panes. The left return side has a
set-back 2-window wing; the right-hand return has one bay with
fenestration like that at the front (but with altered glazing
at ground floor), and then a short wing with a segmental bow
which has a tripartite sashed windows to both floors, that at
ground floor with a pedimented architrave and both with curved
glazing. C20 single-storey addition covering rear range.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8541195578

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514291

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)