Slade Hall

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Slade Hall
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Location within Greater Manchester
General information
Town or city Manchester
CountryEngland
Coordinates 53°27′02″N2°11′49″W / 53.4506°N 2.1969°W / 53.4506; -2.1969
Completed1585
Designations
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameSlade Hall
Designated25 February 1952
Reference no. 1254632
Old drawing of Slade Hall showing the east front Manchester Slade Hall 6.jpg
Old drawing of Slade Hall showing the east front

Slade Hall is a small Elizabethan manor house on Slade Lane in Longsight, Manchester, England (grid reference SJ870948 ). An inscription above the porch dates the building to 1585.

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The mansion is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, first listed on 25 February 1952. [1]

History

Slade, known anciently as Milkwall Slade, was an estate made up of 24 acres (9.7 ha) in Rusholme and 20 acres (8.1 ha) in Gorton, both in Manchester, England. From about the mid-13th century until the reign of Elizabeth I, it was held by a family who adopted Slade as their surname. They sold the estate to the Siddall family, who in 1583 began construction of Slade Hall. Work was completed by 1585, as evidenced by an inscription on a beam over the porch, which also has the initials of the builder, E. S., for Edward Siddall. The Siddals and their descendants occupied the house for the next 300 years. [2]

Slade Hall was offered for sale at auction in 2002, and was bought by property developer Mel Evans for £527,000. [3] The hall was purchased as already restored and divided into shared accommodation for 14 residents. [4] It was, in the early 1990s, the registered office of the Partington Housing Association. [5]

Description

Slade Hall is an Elizabethan timber-framed house on a stone base, built to a hall and cross-wing plan. [lower-alpha 1] There are some brick extensions to the rear, a slate roof, and a 19th-century wing added to the right of the original. It is of two storeys, the upper one jettied. [1]

The stud-and-rail timber frame has zig-zag herringbone bracing between the constructional timbers. A porch in the angle between the main gable and the southern wing has painted lozenges resembling quatrefoils. [7] The main hall has two first-floor four-light wooden mullioned casements; the range to the left has a restored fourteen-light mullion and transom window, with a three-light window immediately to its right. The range of the cross-wing on the right has ten-light mullion and transom windows at the ground floor and twelve-lights at the first floor. [1]

The interior has some exposed timberwork showing the house's original construction. Plaster friezes are still visible in the first-floor chamber above the hall, [7] described by architectural historian Norman Redhead as "crude 16th-century stuff". They depict mainly heraldic motifs, including the Elizabethan coat of arms and the Siddall family's crest, but also an "entertaining" hunting scene. [8]

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Notes

  1. ↑ A cross-wing describes a "Wing attached to the hall-range of a medieval house, its axis at right angles to the hall-range, and often gabled." [6]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Historic England, "Slade Hall (1254632)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 15 November 2017
  2. ↑ Farrer, William; Brownhill, J. (eds.). "Townships: Rusholme". A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol. 4. British History Online. pp. 303–309. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Historic hall for sale". Manchester Evening News. 21 September 2005. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Slade Hall's Annex - Happy Hippies wanted :)". SpareRoom. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Partington Housing Association Limited Manchester". BizStats. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Curl, James Stevens (2006). A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (online ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-172648-4 . Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  7. 1 2 Hartwell, Hyde & Pevsner (2004), p. 369.
  8. ↑ Hartwell, Hyde & Pevsner (2004), p. 35.

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