The area, which is mainly residential, was developed in the middle of the 19th century, and at this time a number of educational buildings were also established.[1] The listed buildings consist of houses, churches, a bowling club pavilion, colleges and schools, some of which have changed their purposes since they were first established.
A pair of stuccoed brick houses with a slate roof. They have two storeys, cellars and attics, a double-depth plan, a symmetrical front with each house having three bays, and rear extensions. The outer bays project forward and are gabled. In the middle bay of each house is a doorway with a Tudor arched head, a double-chamfered surround and a hood mould. In the outer bays are cantedbay windows, and in the inner bays are small rectangular bay windows. Most of the windows have hood moulds, those in No. 10 are sashes, with an arched window in the attic with Y-tracery. The windows in No. 8 have altered glazing.[3][5]
Originally a Nonconformist seminary, and later used for other educational purposes, it was reordered in 1876–80 by Alfred Waterhouse. The building is in sandstone at the front, brick at the rear, and has slate roofs. It has an E-shaped plan, and is in Gothic style. The front range has two storeys and a full basement storey, and a symmetrical front of 23 bays with a central tower. At the base of the tower is a Tudor arched doorway, above which is a full-height oriel window incorporating a clock face, and with a pierced parapet and crocketed corner pinnacles. Over this is a two-stage octagonal lantern with gargoyles and pinnacles. Flanking the tower, along the basement storeys are Tudor arched arcades. The windows are mullioned or mullioned and transomed.[a][8][9]
Originally a Methodist college, it was altered in 1896–98, and again in 1904–06, and has been used for different purposes, most recently as a grammar school. The building is in brick with dressings in stone and red terracotta, and it has a slate roof. There is an irregular plan with the main range parallel to the street and rear wings, in two storeys with attics and basements. There is an octagonal clock tower with a cupola, and a Perpendicular-style chapel. At the front are wrought iron railings with gates, lamp brackets, and a scrolled overthrow with an escutcheon.[8][13]
There are two pairs of square brick banded gate piers with shaped pyramidal caps. Between them are low brick walls with stone coping. The cast iron gates and railings have fleur-de-lys standards and panels containing tracery.[15]
A Roman Catholic independent school, built around the original Manchester Aquarium building by Dunn and Hansom. It is in Italian Renaissance style, and built in red brick with red terracotta dressings, a frieze with scrolls, a modillionedcornice, and a pierced parapet with piers. The building has an L-shaped plan, the main range with four storeys and an attic, a front of 11 bays, the left two bays projecting forward, and a single-storey three-bay porch at the right end. The windows have decorative architraves, those on the ground floor with pediments containing busts with different heads. In the centre of the porch is a round-headed doorway with twisted blue columns, a segmental pediment, and a lettered frieze, and at the top is a balustraded parapet with statues.[16][17]
The school was extended to the south in 1910 with a linked block. The building is in red brick with yellow brick bands, terracotta dressings, and green slate roofs. The north, original, block has two storeys, a basement, and a full attic storey. There are nine bays, the centre projecting forward with a gable and containing a porch with a round-headed doorway and a parapet, and on the roof is a flèche. A single-storey three-bay link joins this to the south block, which has a hall over a basement, and six bays, two of which contain five-sided oriel windows. On the roof is a lead-clad cupola.[16][21]
