Plymouth Grove Hotel, Manchester
Description: Plymouth Grove Hotel
Grade: II
Date Listed: 3 October 1974
English Heritage Building ID: 456037
OS Grid Reference: SJ8527796462
OS Grid Coordinates: 385277, 396462
Latitude/Longitude: 53.4647, -2.2232
Location: 6 Bryant Close, Manchester, Greater Manchester M13 9LU
Locality: Manchester
County: Manchester
Country: England
Postcode: M13 9LU
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Listing Text
MANCHESTER
SJ8596 PLYMOUTH GROVE, Chorlton-On-Medlock
698-1/21/617 (North East side)
03/10/74 No.65
Plymouth Grove Hotel
II
Public house. 1873. Red brick with sandstone dressings (roof
concealed). Square plan plus unusual canted loggia with
clock-tower to east side. Three storeys and cellars, 3
windows, with prominent 1st-floor balcony carried round,
2nd-floor sill-band and pilasters, shaped parapet with raised
centre lettered "PLYMOUTH GROVE HOTEL"; central doorway with
altered doors under projected centre of balcony supported by
coupled columns, flanked by canted bay windows also under the
balcony; segmental-headed windows to all floors, those at
ground floor with keyed segmental stone lintels, those at 2nd
floor shorter and furnished with balconettes. The balcony is
cantilevered out, carried round the front and the loggia, and
furnished with cast-iron railings; the loggia forms a wide
diagonal projection to the ground floor of the right-hand
return wall, 7 bays with a central entrance framed by columns,
and arcaded round-headed windows either side with shafts; the
tower above this entrance has a narrow rectangular body and a
disproportionately large head, the former enclosed by slender
columns with crocket caps and the latter with a prominent
2-stage bracketed cornice, and a domed roof with pedimented
clock-faces a small but elaborate cupola.
Listing NGR: SJ8527796462
Source: English Heritage
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