William Hulme Grammar School

William Hulme Grammar School is a school building dated 1886, designed by A.H. Davies Colley, with an extension added in 1910. It features red brick with some yellow brick bands and stone coping, along with terracotta dressings and green slate roofs. The school consists of two blocks connected by an entrance and reception hall, designed in an eclectic late Gothic style.

The 1886 block, located to the north, has a basement, two tall storeys, and a full attic storey, with a window arrangement of 1:2:3:2:1. The gabled center of this block projects forward and includes traceried terracotta panels between floors, a banded attic storey, and a steeply-pitched hipped roof topped with a lead-clad fleche. The center features a porch with a round-headed doorway, a string-course, and a parapet with lettered panels. It has various narrow transomed windows and a shaped gable with an oculus. The large mullion-and-transom cross-windows, mostly with arched lights, are located in two-storey canted bays at the ends, which have banded parapets. The attic windows are set in round-headed blank arches with banded heads and shaped gables that break into the roof.

Attached to the south end is a single-storey link building (over a basement) with three bays, featuring terracotta buttresses, a frieze, and a pierced parapet. It has 6-light transomed windows in the first two bays and a gabled entrance in the third bay, which includes a round-headed doorway surrounded by richly ornamented terracotta, including a swan-neck pediment.

The 1910 block, which is attached and set back to the south, is a large school hall over a basement with six bays. The second and fifth bays project forward and feature five-sided oriel windows that extend from the basement, with a doorway at ground floor level to the right. These bays, along with the others, have tall 6-light windows with low transoms and Tudor-arched lights, as well as traceried terracotta panels below. The steeply-pitched roof is trapped between gables and has a lead-clad cupola at the center. The rear and interior of the building were not inspected.