22 (Limerick), 20 (Tudor Lodge), Harboro Rd
Location/Address
20 – 22 Harboro Road,
Ashton-upon-Mersey
Type
Description
Historic Interest: First depicted on mapping from the 1890s along with a number of similarly sized properties on each side of Harboro Road. Only gained its fork-in-the-road, corner plot location after formation of Harboro Way in the second half of the 20th C, linking Harboro Way directly to Washway Road.
Architectural Interest: Large semi-detached 3-storey properties, 4 bays on the front elevation with central 2 bays formed of projecting gables, bay windows at ground floor. Slate roofs throughout. Grey coloured brick in header-bond with red-brick string coursing, third-storey of front-facing gables are rendered, mock-tudor black-painted timber detailing above windows to roof level. Large decorative red-brick chimney stacks on the end gables, with projecting jettied bay windows at second storey with timber corbels over a lesser-projecting red-brick bay.
HOUSES, ASHTON-ON-MERSEY. THE view shows a pair of semi-detached houses and a detached one, built in Harboro Road, Ashton-on-Mersey. The former have both the entertaining rooms to the front, and in addition to the accommodation shown on the plans, have cellars and three attic bedrooms. The half-timber gables and those in front are in Portland cement, finished a rich buff. The roofs are slated, and all the walls are finished with bricks, locally known as “white ends,” with red pressed brick quoins. All sills and heads are of red concrete, and all windows above the transoms are lead lights. The builders were Messrs. Neill and Sons, Strangeways, Manchester. The above remarks apply equally to the detached houses, only the fittings are more expensively finished, and there is a heating apparatus in the hall, which, having a large well-hole above, heats the entire house. Mr. Edward Wood, of Lower Broughton, was the builder, and both blocks have been carried out from the designs and under the superintendence of the architect, Mr Robert C. Whitelegg, of 29, Brazennose-street, Manchester. [Building News 17 April 1891 page 532]
Group Value: Similar scale, massing, style and date as neighbouring semi (16-18).
Statement of Significance
Architectural and Artistic Interest
Group Value
Historic Interest
Date Listed
n/a
Last Updated
04 Apr 2023
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