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© Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
IoE Number:
212974
Location:
ENTRANCE PORTAL AND LODGES TO FORMER WHITE CITY GREYHOUND TRACK, CHESTER ROAD (south east side)
STRETFORD, TRAFFORD, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr F. Bryan Basketter LRPS
Date Photographed:
21 August 2002
Date listed:
30 June 1987
Date of last amendment:
30 June 1987
Grade
II
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STRETFORD CHESTER ROAD
SJ 89 NW
(south-east side)
(sJ 8196 SW)
3/16 Entrance portal
and lodges to
former White City
- greyhound track
- II
Entrance portal and lodges. 1828. Ashlar, now painted, with
cast-iron gates. Double vehicular gates flanked by
pedestrian doorways and 2-storey lodges.In a grand classical
manner. Elaborate double cast-iron gates below a semi-
circular keystone arch flanked by freestanding paired
unfluted Ionic columns. The doorways also have cast-iron
gates and blind recesses above. 2-storeyed lodges to either
side with attached giant columns in antis and 12-pane sash
windows on each floor. A bold entablature and blocking
course continues across the entire composition breaking
forward above the freestanding columns. The portal was
originally the entrance to the Botanic Gardens.