Former Hot Shots Snooker Club

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SD 80 SW; 698-1/2/564

MANCHESTER, CHEETHAM HILL ROAD (East side), Cheetham, Former Hot Shots Snooker Club

(Formerly listed as: Hot Shots Snooker Club)

11/02/93

GV

II

Billiard hall. 1906, altered. Painted roughcast on brick, with internal timber frame, tiled roofs. Rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Eclectic style with Edwardian Baroque and Art Nouveau elements. Two-storey entrance front to single-storey hall; wide centre and narrow side bays, with segmental modillioned cornice to centre flanked by square turrets which have pilasters with Art Nouveau ornament and swept pyramidal roofs. Wide segmental bowed window to centre of ground floor (now blanked off), round-headed doorway to left with pilasters which have Art Nouveau ornament and keyed semi-circular hood, slightly bowed window to right (now blanked off), and a prominent bracketed cornice over the whole; blocked or blind Venetian style window in centre of 1st floor, and ornamental lancets in the turrets with keystones and swept pediments. INTERIOR: laminated timber elliptical-arched frames; original side benches, radiators, cue-racks, etc in Art Nouveau style. Unusual survival of its type and date.

Listing NGR: SD8410201315