1a, Cavendish Road

No. 1A Cavendish Road is a church institute that has been converted into university premises. It was built in the late 19th century and features coursed squared gritstone with ashlar details and a slate roof. The building is possibly designed by Richard Adams and John Kelly. It has a rectangular shape with a two-storey, three-bay gable front facing Cavendish Road, and it extends ten bays eastwards on a sloping site, reaching four storeys at the eastern end. The design is in the Gothic Revival style, featuring board doors with cast-iron scrolled hinges set in an ashlar porch with a chamfered arch and attached columns. Above the porch, there is a three-light window and niches, along with a rose window in the gable. On the right side, there is a shouldered arch leading to an entrance porch, with projecting gabled wings on both the center and left sides. The windows include two- and three-light designs, some with transoms, and the upper floor of the center wing features plate tracery. The chimneys have been reduced in height. The interior has not been inspected. The building was originally constructed as the Emanuel Church Institute, likely by the same architects who designed the Emmanuel Church to the north.