TOWN HALL AND MARKET HALL

TOWN HALL AND MARKET HALL, HIGHTOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130352
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1978
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL AND MARKET HALL
Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL AND MARKET HALL, HIGHTOWN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130352
Date first listed:: 27-Apr-1978
List Entry Name:: TOWN HALL AND MARKET HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN HALL AND MARKET HALL, HIGHTOWN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWN HALL AND MARKET HALL, HIGHTOWN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sandbach
National Grid Reference:: SJ 75803 60887

Details

HIGHTOWN 1. 5144 (North Side) Town Hall and Market Hall SJ 7560 1/62 II 2. 1889. Architect, Thomas Bower of Nantwich. Gothic style; red brick with stone dressings; facade expresses 2 storeys; centre portion of 4 bays, each defined by buttresses and with 3-light mullioned windows in stone surrounds with hood moulds; string-course at 1st floor; below is an open arcaded loggia of 4 pointed arched openings; 4-stage tower block on right-hand side, the upper octagonal, with a clock face on 4 sides, and the whole surmounted by a pyramidal tiled roof, and open lantern; below is an elaborate entrance with pointed arched head surmounted by carved stone heraldic panel and flanked by a pair of stone statues which stand high on corbels under canopies. Gabled bay on left-hand side with 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window. The Market Hall, which is a somewhat later addition, is a plain span-roof brick wing extending at the rear.

Listing NGR: SJ7580360887

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Legacy System number:: 56207
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.