Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW NELL LANE, Barlow Moor
698-1/8/504 (North side)
03/10/74 Withington Hospital (Principal
Administrative Block)
(Formerly Listed as:
NELL LANE, West Didsbury
Withington Hospital)

GV II

Hospital. 1854, by Hayley, Son and Hall, for Chorlton Union.
Red brick with sandstone dressings, slate roofs. Cruciform
plan, with long wings to left and right, chapel projecting
forward at the centre with a tower at the junction, and a rear
wing. CHAPEL. A tall single-storey 7-bay range of brick with
3-bay entrance front of sandstone ashlar: this has a projected
gabled centre which has pilastered corners and a 3-bay arcade
of super-imposed openings with Tuscan columns and entablature
to ground floor and Corinthian colonnettes above, a central
doorway with fanlight and 3 round-headed windows with
radiating glazing bars above, a roundel in the gable and
bracketed gable coping with a bellcote-style feature on the
apex; rusticated side bays with round-headed arches containing
large round-headed windows with radiating glazing bars,
bracketed cornices, and parapets with shaped upstand features.
The brick side walls have windows similar to those at the
front, with stone impost bands and elongated keystones. The
tower, breaking through the roof at the north end, is also of
ashlar, square, Italianate in style, with a modillioned
cornice near the base, a short 1st stage with dentilled
cornice, and a tall belfry stage which has corner pilasters, a
round-headed arch in each side containing a louvred window of
2 round-headed lights, a prominent bracketed cornice and
pyramidal roof with weathervane.
EAST AND WEST WINGS. Three-storey 18-window ranges, with stone
plinths, rusticated quoins, 1st-floor sill-bands,
string-courses over the top floor windows, bracketed eaves and
hipped roofs with cut-down ridge chimneys. The inner bays and
the 3 outer bays break forwards slightly and are quoined, the
inner having one 3-light mullioned window on each floor, and
the outer having stone architraves to all the windows, those
at ground floor segmental-headed and those in the centre at
1st and 2nd floors tripartite, all sashed with glazing bars.
The long intermediate ranges have segmental-headed windows and
doors at ground floor, 12- and 9-pane sashes at 1st and 2nd
floors, with flat-arched heads and keystones. REAR WING. 2
storeys and basement, a 10-bay range, the 4 bays nearest the
main block with unhorned 12-pane sashes, and the other bays
each with one large round-headed window with glazing bars (45
panes).
Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8363092311

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514776

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)