Hollywood Park Centre

Former junior and senior council school, built 1906–7 by the architects Cheers & Smith of Blackburn and Twickenham. The building is constructed of red brick with buff terracotta dressings, graduated Westmorland slate roofs, red terracotta ridge tiles and red terracotta finials to the gables. Tall brick stacks have flared heads. Cast iron railings with Art Nouveau motifs enclose the site.

The building has an irregular T-shaped plan, with the senior school occupying a range parallel to Hardman Street and the junior school attached at right angles to the rear.

The street elevation is symmetrical with a brick plinth. Two-storey gabled end bay pavilions project from either end, each with terracotta sill bands and a moulded string course between ground and first-floor levels. Paired pilasters rise from terracotta scrolled brackets to frame large first-floor windows and support deep overhanging eaves. The gable ends have white plastered tops, and a decorative terracotta panel is positioned beneath the first-floor windows. Narrow windows flank the outer sides of the pilasters. On the inner sides of each pavilion are projecting two-storey stair towers, each featuring tall narrow windows, a deep terracotta frieze with an oculus, and a shaped parapet with terracotta banding and coping, topped by a slate-covered needle spire with finial. Entrance doorways to the outer side elevations contain fielded-panel and part-glazed doors, set within slate porches supported on carved timber consoles.

The single-storey central section has two slightly projecting gables with deep overhanging eaves supported on paired timber consoles. Between them sits a central chimney with a terracotta cartouche dated 1906 at its base, flanked by tall stacks. Flanking bays to each side break through the eaves as dormers. Windows are of two types: larger windows in the gables and dormer bays, some with keyed segmental arch tops and wood mullions and transoms, with 3 lights above having multi-pane glazing and 6 over 6 or 3 over 6 sashes below; smaller windows between have 2 over 4 sashes. Main entrance doorways with double doors are positioned to the rear of the range, one to the inside of each two-storey end pavilion wing (the north doorway has lost its original fielded-panel and part-glazed doors).

The junior school range to the rear has irregular gables on its south side with two double-door entrances, each with an overhanging gable porch supported on wooden console brackets and containing fielded-panel and part-glazed doors. Three dormers appear on the north side. Original windows match those of the front range.

The interior of the front range contains a double-height hall running north-south, with a hammer-beam roof and timber framing of dark wood, and clerestory windows down each side and at each end. On the west side (fronting the street) are three classrooms with diagonal timber ribs to the ceilings, supported on moulded corbels. Corridors at each end of the hall lead to the end pavilions and rear wings. A corridor in the centre of the hall's east wall connects to the juniors' hall. A brass plaque on the west wall of the hall records the opening of the school in 1907. The end pavilions contain classrooms to the front, with large classrooms on the first floors featuring decoratively treated timber beams and timber framing, accessed by stairs in the stair towers. The classroom in the south pavilion has two large corner fireplaces. The wings to the rear of the end pavilions contain staff accommodation and stairs.

The junior school has a central double-height hall running east-west, with decoratively treated timber trusses with wall posts supported on moulded corbels, timber framing (now painted white), and clerestory windows down each side and at each end. The north side contains three classrooms with diagonal timber ribs to the ceiling (now painted), while the south side has one classroom, two corridors to the playground, cloakrooms and ancillary rooms.

Original interior features survive throughout, including tiling up to dado level (now painted), parquet flooring (now carpeted), fielded-panel and part-glazed doors, narrow fielded-panel doors connecting classrooms, part-glazed room dividers, corner fireplaces in classrooms, built-in blackboards, built-in cupboards (with glazed doors now removed), stair handrails and wash basins.

The school was built as a council school in 1906–7 and formed one of a pair designed by Cheers & Smith for the County Borough of Stockport; the other school, North Reddish Infant and Junior School on Lewis Road, Stockport, also opened in 1907. The school closed in 1979 and has since been used as a nursery and adult education centre.