84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester
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84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 15 May 2012
"Of note as one of the largest and most elaborate early C19 houses in inner Manchester", wrote Pevsner. Stuccoed with pilasters and porch. Built c1838-40, possibly to the designs of Richard Lane who employed the same unusual style of capital elsewhere (Image]). It is based on the Tower of the Winds in Athens. Grade II* listed. A blue plaque records the residency of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell from 1850 to 1865. The Manchester Historic Buildings Trust has been restoring the building with a view to opening it to the public in 2014, perhaps in the hope that it will become this side of the Pennines's equivalent of the Bronte's house.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.463509
Longitude
-2.221225