Drill Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Military building. 2 related planning applications.
Drill Hall
- WRENN ID
- gilded-cornice-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Military building
- Address
- Drill Hall, Ardwick Green North, M12 6HD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 850 973
- Coordinates
- 53.47231, -2.2274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Drill Hall, built in 1886 by Laurence Booth, serves as the Territorial Army Drill Hall and Offices for the 1st Battalion Lancashire Volunteers, C Company. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble and has a roughly rectangular plan in a medieval style. The building features three storeys with three wide bays and a square four-storey tower on the left end.
Architectural details include a sill-band at the ground floor, bands on both upper floors, a corbel table, and an embattled parapet with a small square turret at the right corner. The tower has a tall octagonal chimney at the inner corner and shorter square chimneys flanking the centre. The central bay contains a segmental-headed entrance archway and a three-light window on the first floor with a transom and arched lights under a segmental arch. Corbelled tourelles rise from this level and are finished as chimneys. The second floor has five narrow slit-windows, and a raised parapet is inscribed with the words "ALWAYS READY."
The outer bays feature arcaded round-headed windows on the ground floor and transomed arched windows on the first floor, including an eight-light oriel at the right-hand end with a frieze of blank shields above the lights. The second floor has slit windows similar to those in the centre. The tower includes three slit windows on the ground floor, two on the first floor, and two similar windows flanking a small triangular oriel on the second floor. The third floor has an arcaded three-light window with sashed lights, shafts, and two-centred arches, while the left side displays more regular fenestration and a brick continuation. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Drill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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