They are very diverse, from the excess of Tudor to the commercial beauty of Stockport banks.
But they all have one thing in common: they’re slowly crumbling.
And if they dust off, their remarkable stories or architectural qualities will also be lost.
To make the list everyone’s in, decomposition is an attribute.
The list is the Register of Buildings at Risk, compiled through Save Britain’s Heritage.
In Greater Manchester, the buildings are cut off and in Cheshire 24.
In the year of coronavirus, nostalgia is an escape from sadness.
But many of our old character buildings are inactive because no new use is discovered for them.
A new beginning, this is the Georgian village Woodbank Hall in Stockport, listed as Grade II.
It is located in a public park at the end of Fred Perry Way, deserted and fallen.
Truly unforgivable, when the 185 acres of land around him were donated to the council after World War I reminiscent of stockport’s men who lost their lives. The room itself was given in 1924.
He built for Peter Marsland, a local textile manufacturer, in 1812 through Thomas Harrison, in the Greek Renaissance style.
Since then it has been a museum and offices of the town hall, and maintains its elegance, has remained empty for many years.
Set on a terrace of 3 houses dating back to the early 19th century, this historic pub has a popular meeting point among undergraduate academics at the University of Salford and specialists in quality beer.
Going back to the 1860s, it would also have been a position where Karl Marx enjoyed a pint with Friedrich Engels while formulating concepts about communism.
The pub, despite everything, struck the clock in December 2017 after being sold to Chinese investors for £ 325,000 the previous year.
Saving Britain’s Heritage said: “The houses are and seem to have always been identical, however, two have entrance doors with pilasters and pediments that look very similar.
“Now they have a plaster on bricks and Welsh slate ceilings. There are 3 floors with abnormalities in the attic. “
The Black Horse Hotel, once nearby, was demolished to make way for the construction of an apartment that evolved through Fred Done.
There were discussions about the creation of a new Chinese center and network center on the site.
SAVE thinks it’s not for starters.
“Since these houses have so much social and networking interest and are Grade II, it is to be expected that this is not imaginable and that there will be strong resistance. “
Hidden from view along one of Greater Manchester’s busiest roads, those two double villas date back to 1857.
The residential conversion permit granted in February 2019, however, an appeal was filed against some of the conditions, which has not yet been decided.
They were built on land that was formerly owned by the Clowes family circle, who developed the domain as a smart suburb for wealthy and filthy merchants in the 19th century on the outskirts of Manchester city centre.
The houses are made of red brick with sandstone and have outstanding porches with Doric columns and crowned bars.
Used by time as apartments, the buildings have been empty for several years.
Metal fences have been installed around the building for protection reasons.
SAVE “is dismayed by the state of those beautiful buildings that can be rehabilitated into apartments or stunning personal homes and urges the town hall to work with the owner to find a solution before it’s too late. “
At a time when bloodhounds can speak without issue, and on the occasion of a municipal crisis, directly to Salford City Council officials, I met with David Johnston, Director of Education and Recreation.
He nevertheless crossed the river to do the same task for Manchester.
But before he moved out, we met to talk about the good, the bad and the outrageous he was going through at his branch in the magnificent grandeur of his Chapel Street office.
Compared to my FOXhole MEN in Eccles, his workplace was the length of a small house, with high ceilings and rays of sunlight coming through many windows.
As SAVE enjoys, now-empty school offices “are a building” dating back to 1895.
Built of tile, a very elegant enamelled ceramic to resist urban dirt, on a sunny day it shone on the street of the chapel breaking down in the past 90s.
SAVE says: “Historical England calls the French Renaissance style, yet it is full top-level neoclassical Victorian, with compromised Tuscan columns, rusticity added to the top level, small pointed pediments just to laugh at the turrets and a little Elizabethan The Dutch bracelet thrown.
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“There is even a nod to Egypt in the small dotted obelisks, in reference to Napoleon’s crusade there. “
The Catholic Diocese has had plans for construction since 2002 to retire the elderly clergy.
Other parts of the same plan have been completed, but the Office of Education is stagnant.
“This is too vital a construction to leave on the floor and the final touch of this project should be actively encouraged,” SAVE says.
Construction “looks more like Brooklyn at the beginning of the century than Lancashire,” SAVE says of the now devastated monument.
The facade will be preserved as part of a progression plan approved last year, but the paintings have still begun.
Now a relic remained empty and decaying for 20 years and emptied through an uncovered chimney at 4:45 a. m. December 1 last year.
It opened as the Lyceum Theatre in 1899, and then settled in the Grand Theatre and Opera, which hosted many outstanding artists of early 20th-century varieties.
In 1932 he became a cinema, became a bingo runner in 1963 but closed in the 1980s.
In 2005, MEN reported that an American filmmaker, Geoffrey Klein, who had moved to Prestwich, bought the construction for $4 million and planned it in luxurious apartments, but the task never progressed.
All the elegant decoration, adding the internal “Adamesque floral plaster” of the auditorium, lost in the fire.
Only the striking facade can be renovated.
Cosmopolitan Cheetham Hill is dotted with many buildings.
This Edwardian Baroque library, listed as Grade II, sold for 500,000 euros in 2015, but remains closed and unused.
Designed by city architect Henry Price and built in 1909-11, it consists of two symmetrical wings and a semi-bombed central porch.
Cartridges – classic tablets – on the wings have names of literary greats: Scott, Milton, Shakespeare and Dickens. The interior has arcades and a vaulted ceiling.
The construction is in poor condition and the roof, in particular, requires attention.
According to SAVE, the town hall is in normal contact with the construction owner about fixed paints and their long-term remodeling.
Network usage was expected to be found.
This construction, dating from the early seventeenth century, is located in the middle of the countryside, now remains simply surrounded by urbanizations.
Once closed, it went to offices and then to a house.
The interior holds the beams and stained-glass ceilings of the century.
Now it’s been empty for years.
“We have high hopes that assets will replace hands and that will move and bring them back to life,” SAVE says.
This attractive Grade II indexed workplace construction built in 1889 according to the plans of Alfred Waterhouse, architect of Manchester’s Gothic Renaissance City Council.
Two years ago, it went on the market for 1 million pounds.
Built of brick with terracotta cladding, it has 3 floors with an augmented basement and an attic.
The occupant’s call remains engraved on the outside: “Prudential Guarantee Buildings”.
Inside, the main hallway a ceiling adorned with drywall and tiled walls.
Slap in the middle of the city center, is next to the Metrolink stop. Union Street has been renovated as a result of painting structures through Metrolink.
The construction is empty and in poor condition due to lead thieves and plants that pass through it.
They say they want “desperately” really extensive maintenance to maintain old features.
At the height of The Cornerhouse cinema, I saw old videos across the street on screen 1: Blue Velvet with Isabella Rossellini and dark functionality through Denis Hopper.
Now embedded, it may now be a component or oppose a remodel assignment for Oxford Road Station.
It dates back to 1909 and was built to be compatible in an open area below Piers 2 and 3 of Oxford Road Station.
In 1934, it became a new reel theater and was renovated.
For the rest of his life, he served primarily as a film, most recently at the former Cornerhouse Arts Centre across 70 Oxford Road, which opened in 1985.
SAVE says: “Survive the features of its illustrious past, the original cast iron columns of the station, which support the upper platforms and much of the original structure.
“This original construction registers a colorful component of Manchester’s national and cultural cinematic history and must be protected. “
Their forums were once through many music-hall artists
But the local council revealed in October that the site exceeds wishes and can be sold.
It opened as the Hippodrome of the Empire in 1904 and was home to a cinema in the 1930s, when Drury and Gomersall rebuilt the auditorium and façade in an art deco style.
It was bought and then leased through the town hall, having left the last tenant in 2009. Plans to demolish construction were only interrupted by their Grade II enrollment in the same year.
SAVE says: “The racetrack is special because, unlike many cinemas, its interiors have survived largely intact. It still has its double-height auditorium and many art deco details, adding grids of perforated geometric organs topped by sunlight, pilasters with sunburst capitals and ornamental plaster.
“It is shocking that what is now a rare survival has come so close to demolition.
An integral component of Stockport’s trading heritage, this site is meant to convert 60 million pounds into a lot of houses.
Located under the city’s iconic Grade II railway viaduct in 1844, it will also feature new cafes, deli shops, independent and advertising spaces.
The assignment would create 250 by the River Mersey, opening the promenade to the public.
Proposals for the former Chestergate cotton mill come from the developer and new owners, Capital
It is thought that the mill was one of the first generators on the river bank in Stockport, parts dating from the eighteenth century.
It has been expanded and rebuilt to serve as a cotton factory. Most existing buildings date back to 1884.
The plant is described by SAVE as “Greater Manchester’s largest multiphase factory, and includes the first chimney-retardant structure strategies in the form of brick vaults. “
They add: “Despite its modifications, the mill remains virtually intact with its auxiliary buildings. It includes a number of brick buildings adding two sloaves, a knitting shed, a warehouse, offices and a fireplace.
“Weir Mill creates a riverside shopping scene and can adapt to combined uses, adding homes, offices and small businesses.
Turns out this vision would possibly come true.
In Cheshire, there is a new addition to the list.
An extensive 38-room black-and-white concocte, which is seriously charred and looted.
Beeston Towers, a magnificent Grade II indexed neo-Tudor construction built in 1886 to locate John Naylor, a wealthy wooden merchant in Warrington.
The space was remodeled in the 20th century to turn it into a school, then a place to eat and yet a Wild Boar hotel when it has become popular for wedding banquets.
The hotel closed in 2017 and was sold to a new owner in the coming years.
But in February 2019, a fireplace destroyed much of the building’s land, radiators were ripped off and graffiti sprayed on the walls, but most of its original accessories survived.
It’s restorable, for now.
After decades of forgetfulness and inertia, it turns out that there is genuine hope for this jewel of a construction now overshadowed by new high-rise constructions.
In March of this year, an application was approved for a trio of towers at a nearby site on the condition that developers how the bathrooms deserve to be restored.
AQ Investments and Renaker presented plans for up to 1,521 apartments, a new public park and a boulevard.
This may be the key to saving the toilets.
Grade II indexed construction is indexed on SAVE’s list and On England’s Historical Heritage at Risk List, it has had a dangerous lifestyle for 3 decades.
The Collier Street baths opened in 1855 through the Manchester and Salford baths.
The building, designed through Thomas Worthing, in an Italian style, the interior is divided into two halves to provide separate pools for men and women.
The men’s pool is the largest and most richly decorated. The most austere women’s pool tiled in plain white.
Construction was closed in 1880 when Salford Corporation opened new bathrooms on Blackfriars Street.
It was then used as a factory and warehouse for matchboxes.
It was empty and closed for 30 years despite some coverage of the elements through existing owners.
SAVE is optimistic.
“The local authority believes that the use of offices would possibly be the best possible solution. It will take imagination and sensitivity to breathe new life into this desirable building.
They also agree that the recovery of the baths will have to be a condition of the lucrative progression of the surrounding land.
So the region, we have a choice.
Shall we let the threatened buildings stain the landscape?
Or are we a way to save our heritage gems as a legacy of the encouraging designs and skills of past generations of locals?