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© Mr Peter Sargeant
IoE Number:
388032
Location:
ASHTON HOUSE, CORPORATION STREET (east side)
MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr Peter Sargeant
Date Photographed:
05 August 2001
Date listed:
16 May 1988
Date of last amendment:
16 May 1988
Grade
II
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MANCHESTER
SJ8499 CORPORATION STREET
698-1/15/70 (East side)
16/05/88 Ashton House
GV II
Women's hostel. c.1900. Red brick and common brick, with
dressings of buff and white terracotta, slate roof. Triangular
plan with 2 rounded corners, on narrow island site. Arts and
Crafts style. Basement and 4 storeys, a 14-window assymetrical
facade to Corporation Street, with a 3-bay entrance section,
pilastered, with tall parapet of white terracotta gabled over
the centre, recessed segmental-arched porch to left with
mutule cornice, square-headed doorway with 6-light overlight,
a round-headed arched window to the right, three 1-light
windows on each floor of the centre, coupled windows in the
left bay and staggered windows in the right-hand bay; long
range to left with boarded windows at ground floor, coupled
windows to upper floors, terminating in curved corner at very
acute angle; shorter range to the right, with large
round-headed windows at ground floor and coupled windows
above. All ground floor windows boarded, all other windows
sashed with glazing bars in the upper leaf only. Single-storey
banded apse to the south end, above which the pilastered gable
wall has one window on each floor and an embattled parapet
with central gable, letterd "ASHTON HOUSE". Other sides
similar but simpler. Interior not inspected.