Sharp Street Ragged School is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Ragged school. 2 related planning applications.
Sharp Street Ragged School
- WRENN ID
- fossil-moulding-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central MP: Lucy Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Ragged school
- Address
- Sharp Street Ragged School, M4 4HD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 845 991
- Coordinates
- 53.48846, -2.2349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sharp Street Ragged School, now used as a mission, Sunday School, and Boys' Club, was established in 1853 and rebuilt in 1869. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof and has a rectangular plan. The building is two storeys high and consists of 8 bays, each featuring pilasters and a corbel table. On the ground floor, there is a round-headed doorway in the first bay, which has a panelled door and a fanlight with semi-circular tracery. The fourth bay contains a segmental-headed window with a doorway below the sill, which may have been added later. The other bays have coupled segmental-headed windows, while the first floor features coupled round-headed windows. The rear of the building is similar in design. Inside, there is a longitudinal partition that once divided the school into two halves on the ground floor, with one side designated for reception classes for children who needed to be tamed before they could be educated. The interior also includes a stone staircase, a hall on the first floor, and original fireplaces and other fittings. The building remains in use by the charitable institution that originally established it.
Local climate
Sharp Street Ragged School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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