Latitude: 53.4102 / 53°24'36"N
Longitude: -2.2258 / 2°13'32"W
OS Eastings: 385086
OS Northings: 390404
OS Grid: SJ850904
Mapcode National: GBR DYW0.X7
Mapcode Global: WHB9V.SK80
Plus Code: 9C5VCQ6F+3M
Entry Name: Lodge to the Towers (Shirley Institute) and Attached Gatepier
Listing Date: 4 March 1974
Last Amended: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254974
English Heritage Legacy ID: 458459
ID on this website: 101254974
Location: East Didsbury, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M20
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Didsbury East
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Didsbury St James and Emmanuel
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Gatehouse
MANCHESTER
SJ89SE WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/9/682 (South side) 04/03/74 Lodge to The Towers (Shirley Institute) and attached gatepier (Formerly Listed as: WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury Lodge of Shirley Institute)
GV II
Entrance lodge to The Towers (now Shirley Institute). c.1868-72, by Thomas Worthington, for J.E.Taylor. Red brick, with sandstone dressings and slate roof. L-plan formed by main range on north-south axis, short set-back wing on west side, with porch in angle. French Gothic style, with very steeply pitched roofs and tall chimneys. One-and-a-half storeys (the wing lower); rectangular open-arcaded porch with 2 arches to the front and one to the side, composed of short stout columns and responds with foliated caps and moulded 2-centred arches, with a dripband and coped parapet; bracketed brick band to main range, the upper storey slightly oversailing, one cross-window on each floor, the upper breaking through the eaves and rising into a gablet, very steeply pitched hipped roof swept over eaves; tall coupled side-wall chimney, similar chimney at junction with wing, which has a banded gable wall with cross-window at ground floor and cusped oculus near the apex. Banded gate-pier attached to north-west corner by short wall.
Listing NGR: SJ8508690404
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