Slade Hall
{{Short description|Manor house in Manchester, England}}
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{{Infobox Historic building
|name = Slade Hall
|image = Manchester_Slade_Hall_1.jpg
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|map_type = Greater Manchester
|address = Slade Lane, Longsight, Manchester, England
|coordinates = {{coord|53.4506|-2.1969|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
|completion_date = 1585
|renovation_date = 19th century (wing added)
|floor_count = 2
|designations = {{Designation list
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| designation1 = Grade II* Listed Building
| designation1_offname = Slade Hall
| designation1_date = 25 February 1952
| designation1_number = {{NHLE|num=1254632|short=y|postscript=none}}
}}
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File:Manchester_Slade_Hall_6.jpg
Slade Hall is a small Elizabethan manor house on Slade Lane in Longsight, Manchester, England. An inscription above the porch dates the building to 1585.
The mansion is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, first listed on 25 February 1952.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1254632 |desc=Slade Hall |access-date=15 November 2017 |mode=cs2}}
History
Slade, known anciently as Milkwall Slade, was an estate made up of {{convert|24|acre}} in Rusholme and {{convert|20|acre}} 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 Siddalls and their descendants occupied the house for the next 300 years.{{cite book |editor1-last=Farrer |editor1-first=William |editor2-last=Brownhill |editor2-first=J. |title=A History of the County of Lancaster |volume=4 |contribution=Townships: Rusholme |pages=303–309 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp303-309 |publisher=British History Online |access-date=15 November 2017}}
Slade Hall was offered for sale at auction in 2002, and was bought by property developer Mel Evans for £527,000.{{cite news |title=Historic hall for sale |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/property/historic-hall-for-sale-1085159 |access-date=29 April 2017 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=21 September 2005}} The hall was purchased as already restored and divided into shared accommodation for 14 residents.{{cite web |title=Slade Hall's Annex - Happy Hippies wanted :) |url=https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/greater_manchester/longsight/640659 |website=SpareRoom |access-date=16 November 2017 |archive-date=3 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303220925/https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/greater_manchester/longsight/640659 |url-status=live}}
It was, in the early 1990s, the registered office of the Partington Housing Association.{{cite web |title=Partington Housing Association Limited Manchester |url=http://www.bizstats.co.uk/ltd/partington-housing-association-limited-IP27231R/ |work=BizStats |access-date=16 November 2017}}
Description
Slade Hall is an Elizabethan timber-framed house on a stone base, built to a hall and cross-wing plan.{{efn|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."{{cite book |last=Curl |first=James Stevens |title=A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=online |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606789.013.1275 |isbn=978-0-19-172648-4 |access-date=21 November 2017}}}} 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.
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.{{sfnp|Hartwell|Hyde|Pevsner|2004|p=369}} 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.
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,{{sfnp|Hartwell|Hyde|Pevsner|2004|p=369}} 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.{{sfnp|Hartwell|Hyde|Pevsner|2004|p=35}}
See also
{{portal|Greater Manchester}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |last1=Hartwell |first1=Clare |last2=Hyde |first2=Matthew |last3=Pevsner |first3=Nikolaus|title=Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East |year=2004 |series=The Buildings of England |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-10583-4}}
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