Proposed Flats. Oxford Road Manchester

MANCHESTER.- A scheme is afloat for the erection of a block of residential flats in Wilmslow Road, Manchester. It will be a rectangular block, with open space in the centre forming a covered lawn‑tennis court. The ground floor on the main front is occupied on the left of the central entrance by a restaurant, and on the right by a café lounge. There will be provided twelve family flats with one or two sitting rooms each (14 feet by from 17 feet to 20 feet) a bath and a pantry are to take up the first floor. The second floor will be for bachelor flats, ten of them with bedrooms and sitting rooms, and sixty "combined" rooms; while on the top floor are the kitchens and servants' quarters. The architects are Messrs John Brook and Elcock of Manchester. The capital of the proposed company is to be ,75,000. [Building News 30 January 1914 Page 157]

The proposed site was to be opposite Whitworth Park and close to the junction with High Street (Hathersage Road) The central area was to include five tennis courts under an arched roof.

Reference    Manchester Guardian 24 January 1914 page 11
Reference    Manchester City News 24 January 1914 Page 7 with illustration
Reference    Building News 30 January 1914 Page 157