WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL

WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, SPRING BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270699
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, SPRING BRIDGE ROAD

William Hulme Grammar School, Whalley Range. Dated 1886. Designed by A.H.Davies Colley. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270699
Date first listed:: 20-Jun-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, SPRING BRIDGE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, SPRING BRIDGE ROAD

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District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ8358594351

Details

SJ89SW 698-1/8/830 20/06/88

MANCHESTER

SPRING BRIDGE ROAD, Fallowfield William Hulme Grammar School (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: SJ8358594351

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Legacy System number:: 457643
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.