Former doctor's surgery

Former doctor's surgery and house of around 1887, adapted and converted from an early 19th-century house, with further later alterations. The building is designed in an Arts and Crafts-inspired style.

The structure stands on the western edge of the Ancoats Conservation Area on Manchester's inner ring road, close to the Derros building. It is constructed of red brick walls with stone dressings, a slate roof, and timber windows. The plan is L-shaped, with a three-storey range fronting the street and a narrower two-storey early 20th-century rear outshut.

The front elevation faces south-west, though historic directories describe it as facing west. The narrow four-bay frontage comprises a single recessed facade in Flemish bond with a moulded brick cornice, stone head-and-sill bands to each floor, and a canted plinth. The ground floor contains two outer windows, each with a semi-circular arch over featuring moulded-brick flowers in the tympanum, an inner window, and a four-panel door with overlight. All windows are single-pane sashes. The first floor displays a central canted timber oriel window with a fishscale slate roof and leaded upper lights. The second floor has two pairs of windows with leaded upper lights.

The north wall is abutted by the Hudson building. The south wall is blind and rendered, with a truncated chimneystack to the east of the gable.

The rear east wall is three storeys on the left, featuring a timber canted oriel spanning the first and second floors with sash windows. Below the oriel is a recessed doorway, now boarded, with an overlight. The right side comprises a two-storey lean-to outshut, believed to date from the 1880s, constructed in English Garden Wall bond. Between its roof and the main range eaves is a long window of four small lights. A chimney stack rises in the angle against the party wall with the Hudson building. The outshut contains a four-pane sash at first-floor level. Its ground floor is obscured by a further early 20th-century lean-to outshut with a blind wall. At ground floor, the outshut extends leftwards with a former lean-to roof now replaced by a flat roof, glazed below the eaves. The south-facing side wall of the outshut features a segmental doorway and a casement window at ground-floor, and a four-pane sash overlooking the flat roof.

Internally, the hallway retains a decorative tiled floor. The rear kitchen contains terrazzo and a stone Tudor-arched fireplace. Between the kitchen and stair is the cellar stair with lime-washed walls, overlooked from the hall by a pair of casement windows. The former rear window of the hall retains coloured glazing, now overpainted in white. Doorway architraves from the kitchen survive but glazed and timber internal doors have been replaced. The stair is closed-string with turned balusters and a ramped handrail.

Most walls and ceilings have been stripped of plaster and laths, revealing concrete blockwork in the south wall and south-east chimneybreast, and witness marks of a former stair position against the north wall prior to the 1887 remodelling. Most rooms retain fireplaces — those in the parlour date from the 1940s with tiled surrounds, whilst others are probably from the 1880s in cast-iron, with a marble surround in the first-floor front room, which also has a tiled hearth. This room features upper window lights of leaded and coloured glass with central panes hand-painted with fruit and flowers, and a modern suspended ceiling. The room above contains similar painted upper lights with designs of flowers and fruit trees. The sash windows in the 1880s rear outshut retain some etched and coloured glass with fleury-cross designs. The overlight to the former vestibule door survives with paint on its coloured glass.