Moorfield Hotel Brooklands near Sale

This hotel is now in course of erection a few miles from Manchester, on what is known as the Moorfield Estate. It contains, besides ample bars, a smoke‑room 25 feet by 16 feet, a large billiard‑room, with an open‑timbered roof, bar parlours, a number of bedrooms, etc. It is being built of brick, with a considerable quantity of London moulded brick and Yorkshire stone. The main staircase will be a principal feature in the building. On another portion of the estate, laid out for building, four houses are being built in a similar style to the hotel. The architect for the hotel and the estate are Messrs Lockwood, Smith, and Heathcote, of 10, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, and 88, Mosley Street, Manchester. [Building News 8 November 1878 page 474 ]

This is assumed to be the same as the "Hotel at Brooklands near Sale," for which tenders were sought by Smith and Heathcote in March 1878. The illustration also states the architects to be Smith and Heathcote which again suggests that this scheme was commenced before the short-lived partnership with Lockwood.

Reference    Manchester Guardian Tuesday 19 March 1878 Page 1  - Contracts for Hotel at Brooklands near Sale.
Reference    Building News 8 November 1878 page 474 and illustration