Brookfield Unitarian Church Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Church.

Brookfield Unitarian Church Sunday School

WRENN ID
veiled-postern-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Constituency
Gorton and Denton MP: Hannah Spencer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Church
Address
Brookfield Unitarian Church Sunday School, Hyde Road
OS grid reference
SJ 888 959
Coordinates
53.45994, -2.16941
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Brookfield Unitarian Church Sunday School is a school building dated 1899, designed by Thomas Worthington. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and has a slate roof. The building features a hall range with a crosswing at the west end and a porch at the east end, along with a lean-to aisle on the south side, all in a Gothic style.

The single-storey hall range has six bays, a plinth, buttresses, a sill-band, and a parapet interrupted by two large gables. The steeply-pitched roof is topped with a central bell-turret shaped like a square two-stage fleche. The second and fifth bays have large, two-centred arched three-light windows with two transoms, cusped heads, and quatrefoil tracery. The other bays contain large rectangular nine-light mullion-and-transom windows.

Foundation stones below the sills of the gabled bays are dated 1899 and were laid by F.W. Peacock and Robert Clay. There is a projecting lower wing to the right with a segmental-pointed doorway in the re-entrant. All gables are coped, featuring kneelers and short finials. The flat-roofed porch is attached at the east end. The south side has six six-light mullion-and-transom windows and two flat-topped dormers that are boarded.

This building is historically associated with Brookfield Unitarian Church to the east and was also endowed by the Peacock family.

Local climate

Brookfield Unitarian Church Sunday School 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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