25 Holywell Street probably dates from the seventeenth century, but has been altered. Together with No. 26 it forms the Warrington Building of Harris Manchester College.
It is a Grade II Listed Building: List Entry Number 1047226, with the following description:
GV II House. RCHM 204.
Probably originally C17 but has been altered. Three-storeyed stuccoed timber-framing on a stone plinth with cellars, a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet. There is an overhang at the first floor with a moulded cornice. The ground floor has two three-light windows, one with casements, the other with sashes. The front doorway has a moulded wood frame with a scroll bracketed hood. The first and second floors have two bay windows with double sashes with glazing bars in moulded wood frames. Connected with this house on the north is a small C16-C17 two storeyed rubble house with modern brick coping and a Welsh slate roof in which is a dormer with a two-light casement window; it has two brick stacks; the ground floor facing north has a four-light stone-framed moulded mullioned and transomed window, to the east of which is a recessed opening with a four-centred head (probably a blocked doorway), over this is a square label; in the first floor, facing north, is a four-light stone mullioned and transomed window; on the roughcast west gable end is a projecting stack; the gable on the north east is patched in brick and has a three-light stone mullioned window in it; this building is included in the grading II.
By the beginning of the twentieth century Nos. 25, 26, and 27 were part of Manchester College and were called Addis Hall.
25 Holywell Street in the censuses
1841
Martha Brazier, an independent widow aged 65+, was living here with her four lodgers:
Henry Goring (60+) and Mary Worthington (30+) who were independent, and the architect Henry Underwood (35+).
1851
The census reads: “The head [Martha Brazier] died a few days since”. Hence only visitors and servants are listed in the census, plus her gentleman lodger, Henry Goring (72).
Mrs Brazier died at the age of 80 and was buried in St Cross churchyard on 25 March 1851)
1861
Listed as unoccupied.
1871
William Collcutt (52), a college servant, lived here with his wife Ann (52) and their children Emily (25), who was a dressmaker, Joseph (23), who was an attorney's general clerk, and Ellen (14), who was still at school. They had one domestic servant.
1881
Ann Collcutt (62), a widowed dressmaker, continued to live here with her unmarried daughters Emily (35) and Ellen (25), who were both also dressmakers, and her grandson Harry Collcutt (3). They had one general servant.
1891
Mrs Mary A. Walker (43), a lodging-house keeper, lived here with her children Henry (19), who was a groom, Gertrude (17), who assisted her mother in the house, Maggie (13), Winifred (11), Constance (6), and Freda (2).
1901, 1911, and 1921 censuses, and 1939 Register
No 25 & 26 were Addis Hall
Occupants of 25 Holywell Street listed in directories etc. |
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1772 |
Mrs Jones |
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1820–1851 |
Mrs Martha Brazier (widow of James Brazier, who died aged 49 in January 1819) |
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1852 |
No listing |
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1861 |
Revd J. P. Hewlett |
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1866 |
Jonathan W. Lowndes |
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1871–1887 |
William Calcutt or Collcutt to 1872 Mrs Ann Collcutt & Joseph Collcutt in 1875 and 1876 Mrs Ann Collcutt and Miss Collcutt, dressmakers in 1884 and 1887 |
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1894–1896 |
Mrs Walker, lodging house |
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1901–1905 |
Addis Hall (with No. 26) |
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1906–1976 |
No listing |
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Today |
Part of Harris Manchester College |
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