“Hill Side” Wilmslow Road Fallowfield

This was on the plot immediately adjacent to Barcombe Cottage on Wilmslow Road. Later converted into the “Portland Hotel.”  Purchased in the early 1960s by the University of Manchester for the Owens Park student village.

TO BE SOLD, the Freehold Residence known as “Hill Side” and fronting the Wilmslow Road, together with nearly three acres of building land, with large frontage to Oak Drive. The house was built for the present owner from designs by A Waterhouse Esq, and contains three entertaining rooms, four best bedrooms, servants’ rooms, bathroom and all usual offices. There are stables, coach-house, vinery, hothouses and outbuildings, and the property is free from chef or ground rent. [Manchester Guardian 24 September 1881 page 10].