Moss Side Peoples Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1981. Social centre.
Moss Side Peoples Centre
- WRENN ID
- sunken-barrel-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1981
- Type
- Social centre
- Address
- Moss Side Peoples Centre, St Marys Street
- OS grid reference
- SJ 834 960
- Coordinates
- 53.46106, -2.25096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moss Side People's Centre is a former school that includes a teacher's house, now serving as a social centre. It was built between 1855 and 1860 and features brown brick in header bond, although it is now mostly painted in various colours. The building has a fishscale slate roof and an irregular plan, with a hall range parallel to the street, a domestic wing on the left, two crosswings on the right, and various wings at the rear.
In a Gothic style, the hall range boasts a chamfered two-centred arched doorway and two tall gabled traceried windows. The right wing features a large four-light traceried window, while the outer wing attached to it has a two-light window. A rear wing that projects to the right includes a front aisle and a gable wall with a three-light window that has intersecting tracery. The left return facade, which is the teacher's house, has two eight-light mullion-and-transom windows flanking a central two-centred arched doorway with a chamfered surround. Above and to the right of this doorway is a battered chimney stack that ends in a conical louvre. The first floor contains mullioned windows with two, three, and four lights. The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a group with the Church of St Mary on Upper Moss Lane, St Mary's Junior School and its schoolyard railings on Chichester Road, and St Mary's Rectory on Parsonage Street.
Local climate
Moss Side Peoples Centre 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 81% 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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