Part of a Grade-II listed former schoolhouse is to be turned into luxury apartments in Monton.
City planners have greenlit proposals by Cheshire-based European Property Investments Ltd to convert 14,843 square feet of the imposing sandstone Stableford Hall into one one-bed flat, eight two-bed flats, and three three-bed flats.
Stableford Hall is part of the Monton Green Conversation Area and sits behind Grade-II* listed Monton Unitarian Church, backing on to Worsley Golf Club.
It was built in 1888 as Monton Memorial School but in recent years has become vacant, last being used as office space in August 2009.
It was designed in the Gothic Revival style and by notable 19th century architect Thomas Worthington, who was also responsible for a number of beautiful buildings in Manchester and Salford, including the Manchester Minshull Street police courts, Monton Unitarian Church itself, and the 1867 canopy over Matthew Noble’s statue of Prince Albert at Albert Square.
Read: A History of architect Thomas Worthington, Salford luminary
Watch: SalfordOnline.com churches documentary series
Watch: John Henry Poynting – The Monton man who weighed the world
The agents are Saddleworth-based Archiplan.co.uk.
