Extension: The Manchester School for the Deaf and Dumb. Old Trafford

MANCHESTER. - The extension of the school for the deaf and dumb, Old Trafford, is now completed. The additions consisted in extending the back part of the building 24 feet for a printing office, additional play‑room, sewing‑room, and assistants' room, and also to increase the size of the school‑room and dormitories, now making each 77 feet inches by 27 feet inches. The object in view was, not to accommodate a larger number of pupils, but. to give more space to the existing inmates, with a freer circulation of air. This has been accomplished by a system of ventilating shafts round the rooms conducted into flues, the air of which is rarefied by the heat of a smoke shaft adjoining. The dormitories have louvres placed in the roofs, and the cubical space for each individual has been increased from 430 feet to 630 feet (still below the mark). Messrs Southerns, of Salford, were the builders, their estimate being £1,120, whereof £40 was deducted for old materials. Mr James Redford, of Manchester, was the architect. [Building News 14 February 1862 Page 116]

Reference           Building News 14 February 1862 Page 116