Oddfellows Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. College. 2 related planning applications.
Oddfellows Hall
- WRENN ID
- first-sill-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- College
- Address
- Oddfellows Hall, 97, Grosvenor Street, M1 7HF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 845 971
- Coordinates
- 53.47077, -2.23453
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oddfellows Hall is a friendly society office, now serving as a college, built around 1900 to 1910 and altered since then. The building is constructed of brick with a facade of cream terracotta, and its roof is not visible. It features a rectangular plan and is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style. The structure has three storeys and a symmetrical layout with a 1:2:1:2:1 bay arrangement. The central and end sections project slightly forward, while the intermediate bays are framed by giant Ionic columns that enclose recessed windows on the first and second floors. The ground floor has channelled rustication, a prominent modillioned cornice, and a balustraded parapet.
The central entrance includes a round-headed doorway adorned with a large cartouche keyblock and a scrolled wrought-iron fanlight, flanked by pendent pilasters featuring fasces. The upper floors are supported by giant pilasters with panels that also contain fasces. The windows on these floors have variously enriched architraves, including swagged aprons on the second floor. The ground floor features segmental-headed windows, except for those in the end bays, which are square-headed. All windows have splayed voussoirs and large key blocks, though the glazing has been altered. Notably, two ground floor windows on the right retain remnants of engraved glass, one of which displays part of the original lettering "Order of/ MANCHESTER/ FRIENDLY/ OFFICES". The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Oddfellows Hall 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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