Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University
HOLLINGS BUILDING AT MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119722
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLINGS BUILDING AT MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06932/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119722
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLINGS BUILDING AT MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, WILMSLOW ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLINGS BUILDING AT MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, WILMSLOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85650 94516
Details
MANCHESTER FORMER CB
SJ89SE WILMSLOW ROAD 698-1/9/10041 Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University
II
Includes: Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University OLD HALL LANE. Educational building - formerly Hollings College. Built 1957-60. Designed by Leonard C. Howitt. Concrete frame with brick infill to tower and restaurant block and glass curtain walling to the workshop block. Flat roofs. Seven storey range of classrooms with expressed hyperbolic paraboloid frame; semi-circular restaurant block attached to the west and single storey workshop block abuts to the east. Classroom block decreases in width as it ascends, and the hypberbolic paraboloid frame is expressed on the walls and is open as it rises above the top storey (giving rise to the popular local name `The Toast-rack'). Ground floor partly open. Original slim white-painted window frames, single glazed. Brick spandrels below. To west the semi-circular restaurant block is externally two-storeyed with an expressed concrete frame of boomerang-shaped members which rise up the walls, thickening towards the top, and curve over the roof. Replacement UPVC windows; brick horizontal strip spandrels. The centre has a recent extra storey (under construction in 1995). Workshop block has deep horizontal band of windows with original vertical slim-sectioned white painted glazing bars; broad panelled upstand above and red brick plinth. The restaurant block was originally designed to serve meals made by the students at the college to the public while the curved space provided a cat-walk for the products of the tailoring workshop. A distinctive and memorable building which demonstrates this architect's love of structural gymnastics in a dramatic way. It epitomises the popular values of the Festival of Britain, as disseminated into regional architecture.
Listing NGR: SJ8565094516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469220
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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