Elizabeth Gaskell's House
Museums & Science Centres · Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Closed — opens Wednesday at 11am
🏠 Indoor & outdoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16EducationalGardensBooking required☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- On-street parking only
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Free on-street parking on neighbouring streets (up to 3 hours on weekdays, unlimited at weekends). Two bookable on-site Blue Badge spaces, booked by phone or email. Nearest NCP car park on Grafton Street.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Elizabeth Gaskell's House is a historic Victorian home in the Ardwick and Oxford Road area of Manchester, where the novelist lived with her family from 1850 until her death in 1865. The restored period rooms are furnished to look as they would have around the 1850s, and most of the collection can be touched, so it suits families who like hands-on history. Younger visitors can follow a children's trail led by the house cat, try dressing up in Victorian clothes, and use activity baskets. The Victorian-style garden has its own trail, and there are craft activities and games during school holidays. A volunteer-run tea room serves snacks and drinks, and visitors can bring a packed lunch. The house is small, so visits are by pre-booked timed entry, and the house is closed in the run-up to Christmas and early January.
Victorian Christmas Experience mid-November to 20 December; children's activities during school holidays.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes
Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
Travel thermometer
Pram clip-on fan- Hair bobbles
- Comforter, plus a spareThe one that must not be lost. It will be lost.
Toilet rollAssume the worst about the facilities and you'll never be wrong.
Travel potty
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