There are 238 Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance; Grade II* structures are those considered to be "particularly significant buildings of more than local interest". In England, the authority for listing under the Planning Act 1990 rests with English Heritage, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The metropolitan county of Greater Manchester is made up of 10 metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The Grade II* buildings in each borough are listed separately. Manchester, the world's first industrialised city, has 77 of Greater Manchester's 238 Grade II* listed buildings, the highest number of any borough. Bury has the least, with only 8. The River Irwell forms the boundary between Salford and Trafford, so one listed structure, the Barton Swing Aqueduct, has been listed under both Salford and Trafford. Most of Greater Manchester's listed buildings date from the Victorian and Edwardian periods. According to an Association for Industrial Archaeology publication, Greater Manchester is "one of the classic areas of industrial and urban growth in Britain, the result of a combination of forces that came together in the 18th and 19th centuries: a phenomenal rise in population, the appearance of the specialist industrial town, a transport revolution, and weak local lordship". Much of the region, historically a part of Lancashire, was at the forefront of textile manufacturing from the early 19th century until the early 20th century, and the county includes several former mill towns. Greater Manchester has a wealth of industrial heritage, represented by industrial architecture found throughout the county, but many of its Grade II* listed buildings have a municipal, ecclesiastic or other cultural heritage. It is uncertain which Grade II* listed structure in Greater Manchester is the oldest. However, three of the 238 buildings date from the 13th century, making them the oldest. Brandlesholme Old Hall in Bury was once an open-hall cruck-framed house, originating in the 13th century, although altered and extended in the 16th century and completely remodelled in 1849. The Church of St Chad in Rochdale has a 13th-century tower (with an 1870 extension). And Mab's Cross in Wigan, the stump of a boundary cross, is probably 13th century in origin. The newest Grade II* listed building in Greater Manchester is the Daily Express Building, designed by Sir Owen Williams in 1939. Due to the heavy impact of the Industrial Revolution on Greater Manchester, just under half of its Grade II* listed buildings (112, 47%) were completed in the 19th century. Bolton Name Completed Architect Location Grid RefSometimes known as OSGB36, the grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system used by the Ordnance Survey • • Ref(s) Church of All Souls 1880 Paley and Austin Astley Street, Bolton Church of St George 1796 St George's Road, Bolton Church of St George 1863 Oliver and Lamb Bath Street, Bolton Church of St James 1881 Paley and Austin St James Street, Farnworth Church of St Mary Pre-1883 Junction Road, Bolton Church of St Stephen and All Martyrs 1845 Edmund Sharpe Hag End Brow, Bolton Church of St Thomas the Apostle 1875 Paley and Austin Eskrick Street, Bolton Lostock Hall Gatehouse with cottage range to rear 1590 (cottage built 1810) Hall Lane, Lostock 15 Firwood Fold 16th century Firwood Fold, Bradshaw Lee Gate Farmhouse c.1700 Lee Gate, Bradshaw Random Cottage 16th century Greenmount Lane, Bolton Ringley Old Bridge 1677 Ringley Road, Kearsley Swan Lane Mills Numbers 1 and 2 1903, 1906 Stott and Sons of Oldham Higher Swan Lane, Bolton Swan Lane Mills Number 3 1914 Stott of Oldham Higher Swan Lane, Bolton Town Hall 1873 William Hill Victoria Square, Bolton Wash Fold Late 17th century Bolton Road, Bradshaw Bury Name Completed Architect Location Grid Ref Ref(s) Baldingstone House 1615 Walmersley Old Road, Bury Brandlesholme Old Hall 13th century Brandlesholme Road, Bury Christ Church 1888 Lawrence Booth High Street, Walshaw Dearden Fold Farmhouse 16th century Bury Old Road, Radcliffe Hey House 1616 Holcombe Old Road, Ramsbottom Lower Chesham 1713 Bell Lane, Bury Presbyterian Chapel 16th century Knowsley Road, Ainsworth Radcliffe Cenotaph 1922 Sydney Marsh Blackburn Street, Radcliffe Manchester Name Completed Architect Location Grid RefSometimes known as OSGB36, the grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system used by the Ordnance Survey • • Ref(s) 103 Princess Street 1854 J. E. Gregan Princess Street, Manchester 84 Plymouth Grove c.1830 Plymouth Grove, Chorlton-on-Medlock 38 and 42 Mosley Street 1862 Edward Walters Mosley Street, Manchester 25 St Ann's Street 1848 J. E. Gregan St Ann's Street, Manchester Asia House 1910 Harry Fairhurst Princess Street, Manchester Athenaeum 1837 Sir Charles Barry Princess Street, Manchester Barton's Building including Barton Arcade 1871 Corbett, Raby and Sawyer Deansgate, Manchester Beehive Mill Early 1820s Jersey Street, Ancoats Britannia Hotel 1856 Travis and Mangnall Portland Street, Manchester Brookfield Unitarian Church 1871 Thomas Worthington Hyde Road, Gorton Brownfield Mill c.1825 Binns Place, Ancoats Christ Church 1896 Cecil Hardisty Lloyd Street North, Moss Side Church and Friary of St Francis 1872 E. W. Pugin Gorton Lane, Gorton Church of Holy Trinity 1846 Edmund Sharpe Platt Lane, Fallowfield Church of St Cross 1866 William Butterfield Ashton New Road, Clayton Church of St George 1828 Francis Goodwin Chester Road Church of St James Early 16th Century Stenner Lane, Didsbury Church of St John the Evangelist 1871 Paley and Austin Waterloo Road, Cheetham Church of St Mary 1858 J. S. Crowther Upper Moss Lane, Hulme Church of St Michael and All Angels 1937 N. F. Cachemaille-Day Orton Road, Northenden Church of St Nicholas 1932 Welch, Cachemaille-Day and Lander Kingsway, Burnage Church of St Peter 1844 E. H. Shellard Old Market Street, Blackley Church of St Wilfrid 15th Century Ford Lane, Northenden City Police Courts 1871 Thomas Worthington Minshull Street, Manchester Clayton Hall 15th Century Ashton New Road, Clayton Colonnade by lake to south of Heaton Hall c.1824 Francis Godwin Heaton Park, Crumpsall County Court Mid 18th Century Quay Street, Manchester Daily Express Building 1939 Owen Williams Great Ancoats Street, Ancoats Dale Warehouse 1806 William Crossley Dale Street, Manchester Didsbury School of Education c.1790 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury Doubling Mill and Fireproof Mill 1842 Redhill Street, Ancoats Ellen Wilkinson High School 1880 Thomas Worthington Hyde Road, Ardwick Former Estate Exchange 1852 Thomas Worthington Fountain Street, Manchester Former National Westminster Bank 1902 Charles Heathcote York Street, Manchester Former Reform Club 1871 Edward Salomons Spring Gardens, Manchester Free Trade Hall 1856 Edward Walters Peter Street, Manchester G.M.B. National College 1843 Irwin and Chester College Road, Whalley Range The Great Northern Warehouse 1896 W. T. Foxlee Deansgate, Manchester Grand Lodge c.1807 Lewis Wyatt Heaton Park, Crumpsall Heaton Park Temple Late 18th Century James Wyatt Heaton Park, Crumpsall Hough End Hall 1596 Nell Lane, Chorlton-cum-Hardy India House 1912 Harry S. Fairhurst Whitworth Street, Manchester Lancaster House 1912 Harry S. Fairhurst Whitworth Street, Manchester Lawrence Buildings 1874 Pennington and Bridgen Mount Street, Manchester London Road Fire Station 1906 Woodhouse, Willoughby and Langham London Road, Manchester Manchester Cenotaph 1924 Sir Edwin Lutyens St Peter's Square, Manchester Manchester Central Library 1934 Vincent Harris St Peter's Square, Manchester Manchester Central railway station 1879 Sir John Fowler Windmill Street, Manchester Manchester Jewish Museum 1889 Edward Salomons Cheetham Hill Road, Cheetham Manchester Law Library 1885 Thomas Hartas Kennedy Street, Manchester Manchester Town Hall Extension 1938 Vincent Harris Lloyd Street, Manchester Memorial Hall 1866 Thomas Worthington Southmill Street, Manchester Midland Bank Building 1929 Sir Edwin Lutyens with Whinney, Son and Austen Hall King Street, Manchester Midland Hotel 1903 Charles Trubshaw Peter Street, Manchester Mill Building 1804 Jersey Street, Ancoats New Mill 1804 Jersey Street, Ancoats Old Mill and Decker Mill 1798 (Old Mill), 1802 (Decker Mill) Redhill Street, Ancoats The Pankhurst Centre c.1840 Nelson Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock Paragon Mill 1912 Jersey Street, Ancoats Parrs Wood House Late 18th Century Wilmslow Road, Parrs Wood Peacock Mausoleum c.1875 Hyde Road, Gorton Platt Hall c.1764 Thomas Lightoler Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield Portico Library 1806 Thomas Harrison Mosley Street, Manchester Refuge Assurance Company Offices 1891 Alfred Waterhouse Oxford Street, Manchester Rose Hill Mid 19th Century Longley Lane, Northenden Royal Mill 1912 Redhill Street, Ancoats Slade Hall 1585 Slade Lane, Longsight Smithy Lodge 1806 Lewis Wyatt Heaton Park, Crumpsall Store Street Aqueduct c.1799 Store Street, Ancoats Student Health Centre Early 19th Century Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock The Towers (Shirley Institute) 1872 Thomas Worthington Wilmslow Road, Didsbury Tootal, Broadhurst and Lee Building, Manchester 1896 J.Sankey Gibbons Oxford Street, Manchester Upper Brook Street Chapel 1839 Sir Charles Barry Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock Victoria Baths 1906 Hathersage Road, Longsight Victoria Mill 1869 George Woodhouse Lower Vickers Street, Miles Platting Victoria University of Manchester 1870 Alfred and Paul Waterhouse Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock Wythenshawe Hall 16th century Wythenshawe Park, Wythenshawe Oldham Name Completed Architect Location Grid Ref Ref(s) 1–5 Ηοllins Road 17th century Hollins Road, Oldham Church of St Anne 1909 Temple Moore St Anne’s Avenue, Royton Church of St Chad 1746 Church Lane, Uppermill Church of St Mary with St Peter 1830 Richard Lane Church Street, Oldham Church of St Thomas 1848 E. H. Shellard West Street, Lees Foxdenton Hall 1730 Foxdenton Lane, Chadderton Grotton Head Farmhouse 1686 Platting Road, Lydgate Heights Chapel 1765 Broad Lane, Saddleworth Higher Kinders 1642 Kinder’s Lane, Saddleworth Independent Methodist Chapel 1815 George Street, Oldham Shore Mill 1780s Saddleworth Rochdale Name Completed Architect Location Grid Ref Ref(s) Alkrington Hall 1736 Giacomo Leoni Alkrington Hall Road North, Middleton Birchinley Manor Farmhouse 1632 Wild House Lane, Milnrow Church of St Chad 13th Century Church Stile, Rochdale Church of St Edmund 1873 J. M. and H. Taylor Edmund Street, Rochdale Church of St Mary 1740 Toad Lane, Rochdale Clegg Hall 1610 Clegg Hall Road, Milnrow Crimble Mill 1829 Crimble Lane, Heywood Dearnley Old Hall 17th Century New Road, Littleborough Durnford High School, boundary walls, gate piers and side entrance 1910 Edgar Wood and J. Henry Sellers Rectory Street, Middleton Elm Street School 1910 Edgar Wood and J. Henry Sellers Elm Street, Middleton Hope Chapel and Parson's House 1810 Hope Street, Rochdale Hopwood Hall 17th Century Rochdale Road, Middleton Long Street Methodist Church and Sunday School 1899 Edgar Wood Long Street, Middleton Old Bent House 1691 Halifax Road, Littleborough Queen Elizabeth Old Grammar School and adjoining schoolmaster's house 1586 (house built 1839) Boarshaw Road, Middleton Rough Bank Farmhouse 1607 Rough Bank, Milnrow Shore Hall 1605 Higher Shore Road, Littleborough Stubley Old Hall 15th Century Stubley Brow, Littleborough Tonge Hall 1580 William Street, Middleton Windy Bank Farmhouse 1611 Old Road, Littleborough Ye Olde Boar's Head Public House Early 17th Century Long Street, Middleton Salford Name Completed Architect Location Grid Ref Ref(s) Barton Swing Aqueduct 1894 Leader Williams Bridgewater Canal, Urmston Central railway viaduct 1844 Sir John Hawkshaw New Bailey Street, Salford Church of St Andrew 1879 Herbert Edward Tijou Chadwick Road, Eccles Church of St Peter 1869 G.E.Street Chorley Road, Swinton Church of St Philip with St Stephen 1825 Sir Robert Smirke St Philip’s Place, Salford Church of the Sacred Trinity 1752 Trinity Market, Salford Former public baths 1855 Thomas Worthington Collier Street, Salford Kersal Cell 16th century Whitewater Drive, Kersal Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club 1880 George T Redmayne Blackfriars Road, Salford Monton Unitarian Church 1875 Thomas Worthington Monton Green, Eccles Parish Church of St Luke 1865 George Gilbert Scott Liverpool Street, Salford Salford Cathedral 1845 Weightman & Hadfield Chapel Street, Salford Southern railway viaduct 1844 Sir John Hawkshaw New Bailey Street, Salford United Reformed Church 1844 Sir John Hawkshaw New Bailey Street, Salford Stockport Name Completed Architect Location Grid Ref Ref(s) Abney Hall 1847 Manchester Road, Cheadle Chadkirk Chapel 16th century Chadkirk Lane, Romiley Church of St Martin 1870 John D. Sedding Brabyns Brow, Marple Former rectory 1744 Churchgate, Stockport Gateway to Parish Church of St Mary and fountain to side 1853 Lewis Wyatt Churchgate, Stockport Houldsworth Mill 1865 Abraham Stott Houldsworth Street, Reddish Houldsworth Working Men's Club 1874 Abraham Stott Leamington Road, Reddish Mellor Hall and farmhouse 1688 Church Road, Mellor Moseley Old Hall 1666 Cuthbert Road, Cheadle New Hall farmhouse & New Hall Cottage 1630 Old Hall Lane, Woodford Old Manor Farm 15th century Stockport Road, Marple Pear Mill 1912 A. H. Stott and Sons (later Philip Sidney Stott) Stockport Road West, Bredbury Plaza Cinema 1932 W. Thornley Mersey Square, Stockport Rectory to Church of St Elisabeth 1883 Alfred Waterhouse Liverpool Road, Reddish Staircase House Late 15th century 30A and 31 Market Place, Stockport St Elisabeth's School 1876 Alfred Waterhouse Liverpool Road, Reddish Stockport Art Gallery 1925 J. T. Halliday Wellington Road South, Stockport Stockport Town Hall 1908 Alfred Brumwell Thomas Wellington Road South, Stockport Stockport Viaduct 1840 George W. Buck Stockport Underbank Hall 16th century Great Underbank, Stockport Wall to the west Church of St Elisabeth Liverpool Road, Reddish Wall to the west and south of Church of St Elisabeth Leamington Road, Reddish Wall to the west of Houldsworth School Liverpool Road, Reddish Woodbank 1812 Thomas Harrison Woodbank Memorial Park, Stockport Tameside Name Completed Architect Location Grid Ref Ref(s) 15A, 28 and 30 and Fairfield Square c.1785 Fairfield Square, Droylsden Albion Congregational Church 1895 John Brooke Stamford Street, Ashton-under-Lyne Albion Warehouse 1862 Paull and Ayliffe Penny Meadow, Ashton-under-Lyne Apethorn Farmhouse 15th Century Apethorn Lane, Hyde Buckley Hill Farmhouse 17th Century Lumb Lane, Droylsden Broadbottom Hall 1680 Bostock Road, Longdendale Cavendish Mill 1885 Potts, Pickup and Dixon of Oldham Cavendish Street, Ashton-under-Lyne Church of St Lawrence 1530 Town Lane, Denton Church of St Michael and All Angels c.1486 Warhill, Mottram in Longdendale Dunkinfield Old Chapel 1841 R. Tattersall Old Road, Dukinfield Hugh Mason House 1871 Paull and Robinson Stamford Street, Ashton-under-Lyne Hyde Hall Late 16th Century Town Lane, Denton Old Hall Chapel Late 16th Century Old Hall Street, Dukinfield Old Hall Fold Medieval Newmarket Road, Ashton-under-Lyne Rectory to Church of St Anne 1882 J.M. and H. Taylor St Anne's Drive, Denton Staley Hall and adjoining west wing Late 16th Century Millbrook, Stalybridge War Memorial 1920 F. V. Blundstone Trinity Sreet, Stalybridge Trafford Name Completed Architect Location Grid Ref Ref(s) Ashton New Hall 1804 Church Lane, Sale Barton Swing Aqueduct 1894 Leader Williams Bridgewater Canal, Urmston Church of St George 1759 Isaac Shaw Manchester Road, Carrington Church of St John the Divine 1868 Alfred Waterhouse Brooklands Road, Sale Church of St Martin 1887 W. H. Brakspear Church Lane, Sale Church of St Margaret 1855 W. Hayley Dunham Road, Altrincham Church of St Mary the Virgin 1860 W. H. Brakspear Bowdon Park Road, Bowdon Church of St Michael c.15th century Church Road, Urmston Dunham Massey sawmill 1616 Dunham Massey Hale Chapel 1723 Chapel Lane, Hale Barns Halecroft 1890 Edgar Wood Hale Road, Hale Wigan Name Completed Architect Location Grid Ref Ref(s) Ackhurst Hall 1686 Ackhurst Lane, Orrell Administration block at Astley Hospital 1650 Church Road, Tyldesley Alder House 1697 Alder Street, Atherton Astley Vicarage 1704 Church Road, Tyldesley Barn and attached stable at Winstanley Hall 17th Century (barn) 1830s (stables) Pemberton Road, Wigan Bispham Hall 1573 Crank Road, Wigan Bradley Hall Public House 16th or 17th Century Bradley Lane, Standish Chanters Farmhouse 1678 Chanters Avenue, Atherton Church of All Saints 15th Century Wallgate, Wigan Church of St George 1781 Water Street, Wigan Church of St James with St Thomas 1866 E. G. Paley Hardman Street, Wigan Church of St John 1819 Standishgate, Wigan Church of St Mary 1873 Paley and Austin St Mary's Way, Leigh Church of St Mary 1818 Standishgate, Wigan Church of St Matthew 1894 Paley, Austin and Paley Billinge Road, Wigan Church of St Michael 1878 George Edmund Street Swinley Road, Wigan Church of St Michael and All Angels 1877 Paley and Austin Leigh Road, Atherton Church of St Peter 1881 Paley and Austin Firs Lane, Leigh Chowbent Unitarian Chapel 1721 Bolton Old Road, Atherton Cottage north of barn and attached stable at Winstanley Hall 1884 Pemberton Road, Wigan Encircling railings round War Memorial south of Church of All Saints 1925 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Wallgate, Wigan Gateway to east of northern stable block at Winstanley Hall 1830s Pemberton Road, Wigan Gateway to west of northern stable block at Winstanley Hall 1830s Pemberton Road, Wigan Giant's Hall Farmhouse 1675 Standish Wood Lane, Standish Gateway and Lodges to Haigh Hall Park c.1840 Wigan Lane, Wigan Haigh Hall 1840 School Lane, Haigh Kirkless Hall 1663 Farm Lane, Aspull Kirkless Hall farmhouse 1663 Farm Lane, Aspull Leigh Mill 1913, 1923 Gass and Hope Park Lane, Leigh Light Oaks Hall Early 17th Century Light Oaks Lane, Leigh Lightshaw Hall 16th Century Lightshaw Lane, Golborne Mab's Cross 13th Century Standishgate, Wigan Manor House 17th Century Chorley Lane, Worthington Morley's Hall 16th Century Morley's Lane, Tyldesley Screen wall from barn block to southern stables at Winstanley Hall Pemberton Road, Wigan Stable Block at Winstanley Hall Pemberton Road, Wigan Stable Block at Winstanley Hall Pemberton Road, Wigan War Memorial south of Church of All Saints 1925 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Wallgate, Wigan Winstanley Hall c.1573 Pemberton Road, Wigan Worthington Hall 1577 Chorley Lane, Worthington

See also

• Architecture of Manchester
• Conservation in the United Kingdom
• Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester
• List of tallest buildings in Manchester
• Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester

References

1. McNeil and Nevell (2000), A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Greater Manchester, p. 2.
2. McNeil and Nevell (2000), A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Greater Manchester, p. 2–3.
3. The Images of England website does not list this building as Grade II*. However the website is only accurate as of February 2001. Other later sources list the building as Grade II*, suggesting that the building had its status changed since. The references used to draw this conclusion are in the references column.
4. The Barton Swing Aqueduct crosses the Manchester Ship Canal and is in the boroughs of both Salford and Trafford.
5. Although the building dates back to 1752, it has a tower from 1635.