William Hulme Grammar School
WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, SPRING BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- 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
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- 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
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:
- WILLIAM HULME GRAMMAR SCHOOL, SPRING BRIDGE 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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457643
- 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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