Queen Of Hearts Public House

MANCHESTER

SJ89SE WILBRAHAM ROAD, Fallowfield 698-1/9/690 (North side) Queen of Hearts Public House

GV II

School to Church of the Holy Innocents, now public house. 1870-2, by Price and Linklater; altered. Coursed yellow sandstone rubble, with red sandstone dressings and steeply-pitched slate roof. Rectangular plan on east-west axis with north-east wing. Gothic style. A high single-storey 5-bay hall with lower gabled wings at both ends; the buttressed hall range has low eaves and tall transomed windows rising into gabled half-dormers; the gables of the wings have coupled cross-windows. The east front of the east wing (to Wilmslow Road) has (inter alia) a gabled porch with 2-centred arched doorway moulded in 4 orders, and a small 2-light window above, flanked by octagonal pilasters; and to the right of this, including a 3-bay set-back wing, mullioned windows of 4, 2, 3, 3 and 3 trefoil-headed lights. Interior altered. Forms group with Church of the Holy Innocents and St James (q.v.), which it matches in style and materials.

Listing NGR: SJ8555494048