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© Mr Martin Malies
IoE Number:
388344
Location:
HOUGH END HALL, NELL LANE (north side)
MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr Martin Malies
Date Photographed:
10 October 1999
Date listed:
25 February 1952
Date of last amendment:
25 February 1952
Grade
II*
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MANCHESTER
SJ89SW NELL LANE, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy
698-1/8/584 (North side)
25/02/52 Hough End Hall
II*
Manor house, now public house. 1596, for Sir Nicholas Mosley;
altered and recently restored, partly rebuilt and enlarged to
rear. Brown brick in English bond, with sanstone plinth and
dressings, stone slate roof. H-plan. Two-and-a-half storeys,
1:3:1 windows, symmetrical; central doorway with
stop-chamfered surround (now covered by C20 porch); renewed
mullion-and-transom windows of 10 lights at ground floor and 8
lights at 1st floor, and blind mullioned windows to the attic
(2 lights in main range, 3 lights in wings); some remains of
small original double-chamfered mullioned windows, including
both ends of ground floor of main range, re-entrant of left
wing (one on each floor) and each side of ground floor window
of the same wing. Parapet raised to finialled gable over each
window, with stone coping. Left return wall has 2 massive
chimney stacks, each with 2 diagonal chimneys (C20 porch
between these); right-hand return wall has full-height gabled
projection, formerly a chimney stack, with small waggon
doorway at ground floor, two 2-light windows above, and an
oculus in the left side. Rear: 4 unequal gables, some walls
rebuilt, replacement transomed windows. Interior: almost
completely remodelled, but west end retains 2 massive
inglenook fireplaces with chamfered bressummers; jambs and
bressummer of former hall fireplace in former rear wall; back
door opposed to front door, and of similar type.