New Council Offices Talbot Road Stretford

The Urban Council offices in Talbot-road, Old Trafford erected in 1887-88 from designs by the late Mr Colin C Macleod, architect, at a cost of nearly £4,000 form a structure of red brick with dressings of stone and terra cotta {Slater Manchester and Salford Suburban Directory 1903]

STRETFORD - New offices are in course of erection for the local board of Stretford, near Manchester. They have a frontage to Talbot Road of 82 feet and are Renaissance in style. The ground-floor contains the offices of surveyor (with fireproof plan-room), collector, sanitary inspector, school-board officer, lavatory, etc., and two spare rooms. The floors of entrance hall, corridors, and staircase on this floor are formed of cement concrete, on rolled-iron bearers, finished on surface with marble mosaic work. The first floor contains the clerk's offices (with fireproof strong-room), boardroom, committee-room, waiting - room, and cloakroom, with lavatory. The board-room and corridors on ground and first floors aro heated with Gibbs' small-bore heating apparatus, from a heating chamber in cellar floor. There are also two fireplaces in board-room. The rooms are ventilated by patent louvre inlet and outlet ventilators fixed in flues formed in the walls. The internal woodwork fittings and finishing are of pitch pine, varnished, and polished baywood. The caretaker's apartments are behind the main block, with separate entrance and yard. The contractors for the work are Messrs. Brown and Son, Trafford Road, Salford. [Building News 3 February 1888 page 201]

See also Stretford Local Board Offices, Architectural Competition (qv). This scheme appears not to have been progressed. By November 1886 tenders were being sought for this new scheme to the designs of C C Macleod.

 Stretford Local Board Offices until 1894, then Stretford UDC offices until the opening of Stretford Town Hall. Date stone 1887 Public Hall on porch. Site at 23 Talbot Road backed on to the railway.

Reference    British Architect 19 November 1886 Page viii (Contracts)
Reference    Building News February 1888 page 201
Reference    Slater Manchester and Salford Suburban Directory 1903