"Garwood", Blackburn Park, Didsbury

HOUSE, DIDSBURY, NEAR MANCHESTER - The above residence has been designed for an eligible building site having a south-easterly aspect, upon the Blackburn Park Estate, and will have a frontage to the main road between Manchester and Wilmslow, five miles south of the city. The accommodation comprises drawing, dining, and morning-rooms, entrance and staircase halls, ample domestic conveniences, four principal bedrooms, and four other bedrooms on the second floor. The walls will be faced externally with Ruabon bricks or tile hung, or with specially burnt local grey bricks. The dressings will he of stone and terracotta. The house has been designed by Mr. Joseph Swarbrick, M.S.A., of Manchester, under whose personal supervision the work is to be executed. [Building News 11 December 1896 page 845]

This house, which still stands and is very little changed from the original design shown in The Building News of 11 December 1896, is situated at the corner of Parkfield Road South and Wilmslow Road in Didsbury. It was built in 1895 for a Manchester cotton goods merchant, Thomas Redfern Langtry, and was named "Garwood". – Richard Fletcher

Reference     Building News 11 December 1896 page 845