Cheetham Town Hall Annexe (Former)

MANCHESTER

SJ8499 CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, Cheetham 698-1/15/559 (West side) 03/10/74 No.109 Cheetham Town Hall Annexe (former) (Formerly Listed as: CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, Cheetham (West side) No.109 Cheetham Town Hall Annexe)

GV II

Poor Law Union office, subsequently town hall annexe. 1861-2. Red brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roofs with side-wall chimneys. Rectangular plan. Italianate style. One and 2 storeys, 1:3:1 bays, symmetrical, with 2-storey centre and one-storey side-wings; plinth, frieze and cornice carried across 1st floor, frieze to central block inscribed "PRESTWICH UNION OFICES", prominent modillioned cornice, parapet with balustrades. The centre has a round-headed doorway with channelled stone surround and panelled double doors protected by a square porch with pairs of fluted columns which have debased Ionic capitals, bracketed cornice and panelled parapet with ball finial (former finial to right now missing); 2 square-headed windows at ground floor and 3 round-headed windows at 1st floor, all with shouldered architraves and those at 1st floor with enriched friezes and dentilled cornices, and that in the centre including a large carved keystone and a wreath crest. The single-storey side bays have Venetian windows in very elaborate stone surrounds including pilasters, mutule cornices and panelled parapets with urn finials. All windows boarded at time of survey. Rear and interior not inspected. Forms group with No.107, former Cheetham Town Hall to left (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SJ8418799720