William Hulme Grammar School

SJ89SW 698-1/8/830 20/06/88

MANCHESTER

SPRING BRIDGE ROAD, Fallowfield William Hulme Grammar School (Formerly Listed as: SPRING BRIDGE ROAD, Whalley Range (East side) William Hulme Grammar School)

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School. Dated 1886. Designed by A.H.Davies Colley; with extension of 1910. Red brick, some yellow brick bands, and stone coping; terracotta dressings; green slate roofs. Two blocks with linking entrance and reception hall. Eclectic late Gothic manner. The 1886 block (to the north) has a basement, 2 tall storeys and a full attic storey, 1:2:3:2:1 windows, with gabled centre breaking forwards; traceried terracotta panels between floors; banded attic storey, steeply-pitched hipped roof with lead-clad fleche. The centre has a porch with round-headed doorway, string-course, and parapet with lettered panels; various narrow transomed windows; and shaped gable with oculus. Large mullion-and-transom cross-windows, mostly with arched lights, those at the ends in 2-storey canted bays with banded parapets and those to the attic set in round-headed blank arches with banded heads and shaped gables breaking into roof. Attached at south end, a single-storey (over basement) link of 3 bays, with terracotta buttresses, frieze and pierced parapet, 6-light transomed windows in the first 2 bays and a gabled entrance in the third, with a round-headed doorway in a richly ornamented terracotta surround including a swan-neck pediment. The 1910 block, attached and set back to the south of this, is a large school hall over a basement, 6 bays; the 2nd and 5th bays break forwards, with 5-sided oriel windows carried up from the basement (a doorway at ground floor level of that to the right) and banded gables; these and the other bays have tall 6-light windows with low transoms and Tudor-arched lights, and traceried terracotta panels below. Steeply-pitched roof trapped between gables, with lead-clad cupola in the centre. Rear and interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8358594351