Description

SJ89SW
698-1/8/830
20/06/88

MANCHESTER

SPRING BRIDGE ROAD, Fallowfield
William Hulme Grammar School
(Formerly Listed as:
SPRING BRIDGE ROAD, Whalley Range
(East side)
William Hulme Grammar School)

II

School. Dated 1886. Designed by A.H.Davies Colley; with
extension of 1910. Red brick, some yellow brick bands, and
stone coping; terracotta dressings; green slate roofs. Two
blocks with linking entrance and reception hall. Eclectic late
Gothic manner. The 1886 block (to the north) has a basement, 2
tall storeys and a full attic storey, 1:2:3:2:1 windows, with
gabled centre breaking forwards; traceried terracotta panels
between floors; banded attic storey, steeply-pitched hipped
roof with lead-clad fleche. The centre has a porch with
round-headed doorway, string-course, and parapet with lettered
panels; various narrow transomed windows; and shaped gable
with oculus. Large mullion-and-transom cross-windows, mostly
with arched lights, those at the ends in 2-storey canted bays
with banded parapets and those to the attic set in
round-headed blank arches with banded heads and shaped gables
breaking into roof. Attached at south end, a single-storey
(over basement) link of 3 bays, with terracotta buttresses,
frieze and pierced parapet, 6-light transomed windows in the
first 2 bays and a gabled entrance in the third, with a
round-headed doorway in a richly ornamented terracotta
surround including a swan-neck pediment. The 1910 block,
attached and set back to the south of this, is a large school
hall over a basement, 6 bays; the 2nd and 5th bays break
forwards, with 5-sided oriel windows carried up from the
basement (a doorway at ground floor level of that to the
right) and banded gables; these and the other bays have tall
6-light windows with low transoms and Tudor-arched lights, and
traceried terracotta panels below. Steeply-pitched roof
trapped between gables, with lead-clad cupola in the centre.
Rear and interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8358594351

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560721

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)