William Hulme Grammar School

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW SPRING BRIDGE ROAD, Fallowfield 698-1/8/830 William Hulme Grammar School 20/06/88 (Formerly Listed as: SPRING BRIDGE ROAD, Whalley Range (East side) William Hulme Grammar School)

II

School. Dated 1886. Designed by A.H.Davies Colley; with extension of 1910. Red brick, some yellow brick bands, and stone coping; terracotta dressings; green slate roofs. Two blocks with linking entrance and reception hall. Eclectic late Gothic manner. The 1886 block (to the north) has a basement, 2 tall storeys and a full attic storey, 1:2:3:2:1 windows, with gabled centre breaking forwards; traceried terracotta panels between floors; banded attic storey, steeply-pitched hipped roof with lead-clad fleche. The centre has a porch with round-headed doorway, string-course, and parapet with lettered panels; various narrow transomed windows; and shaped gable with oculus. Large mullion-and-transom cross-windows, mostly with arched lights, those at the ends in 2-storey canted bays with banded parapets and those to the attic set in round-headed blank arches with banded heads and shaped gables breaking into roof. Attached at south end, a single-storey (over basement) link of 3 bays, with terracotta buttresses, frieze and pierced parapet, 6-light transomed windows in the first 2 bays and a gabled entrance in the third, with a round-headed doorway in a richly ornamented terracotta surround including a swan-neck pediment. The 1910 block, attached and set back to the south of this, is a large school hall over a basement, 6 bays; the 2nd and 5th bays break forwards, with 5-sided oriel windows carried up from the basement (a doorway at ground floor level of that to the right) and banded gables; these and the other bays have tall 6-light windows with low transoms and Tudor-arched lights, and traceried terracotta panels below. Steeply-pitched roof trapped between gables, with lead-clad cupola in the centre. Rear and interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8350094300

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1094 IOE Records taken by Leo Jacobs; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Leo Jacobs. Source: Historic England Archive

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