Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89SE WHITWORTH LANE, Rusholme 698-1/9/816 (East side) 03/10/74 Lodge of The Firs, with attached gateway (Formerly Listed as: WHITWORTH LANE, Fallowfield (East side) Lodge of The Firs)

GV II

Gate lodge with attached gateway. 1851, by Edward Walters. Lodge of stucco on brick, with slate roof; stone gate piers with wrought-iron gates and side walls of red brick in Flemish bond. The lodge is square in plan, 2 storeys facing the drive, with a rectangular 2-storey gabled bay to the right and a doorway with shouldered architrave to the left. The bay, which is flanked by round-headed lancets at ground floor, has wooden mullion-and-transom windows to both floors, and barge-boards pierced by quatrefoils; and to the left at 1st floor is a small oriel window. The left return wall has (inter alia) a wooden canted oriel at 1st floor. The gateway has square gate piers with pyramidal caps and elaborate wrought-iron gates, and is flanked by convex quadrantal side walls of brick, that to the left linked to the lodge.

Listing NGR: SJ8585494136

External Links

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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