Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89NW RABY STREET, Moss Side 698-1/4/761 (South side) Westwood House, Nos 1 to 6

II

Block of 6 almshouses. Dated 1876; slightly altered. Red brick with matching terracotta dressings, C20 red pantiled roof. E-plan formed by main range with 3 rear wings. Flemish Gothic style. One-and-a-half storeys, 5 bays (0:1:2:1:0 windows), symmetrical, with a wide centre flanked by projecting gabled bays. Double plinth with chamfered stone copings, 1st-floor band (the centre with stone panelling inscribed "IN MEMORIAM E.M.R. 1876", and the wings enriched with terracotta panels), gables with terracotta enrichment and stepped stone copings with kneelers and apex finials; 4 tall clustered chimneys on the front ridge and one on each of the side wings. The 2 gabled bays each have flanking porches treated as buttresses, with 2-centred arched doorways which have stepped surrounds, 2 narrow single-light windows at ground floor with separate hoodmoulds and similar windows at 1st floor coupled under one hoodmould; the wider centre has 2 pairs of similarly coupled windows at ground floor and a large half-dormer at 1st floor with a hipped roof and a 5-light window (the centre light blind) with a hoodmould. The gable ends of the front range have similar fenestration, and small gabled porches at the junction with the sidewings. Interior not inspected. History: erected by John Robinson of Atlas Works in memory of his sister Edith Marianne Robinson.

Listing NGR: SJ8392795669

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)