ARMOURY TOWERS, THE BARRACKS

ARMOURY TOWERS, THE BARRACKS, CROMPTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206908
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: ARMOURY TOWERS, THE BARRACKS
Statutory Address:: ARMOURY TOWERS, THE BARRACKS, CROMPTON ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-31
Reference:: IOE01/01618/20
Rights:: © Ms Patricia Layhe. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206908
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Feb-1999
List Entry Name:: ARMOURY TOWERS, THE BARRACKS
Statutory Address 1:: ARMOURY TOWERS, THE BARRACKS, CROMPTON ROAD

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:: ARMOURY TOWERS, THE BARRACKS, CROMPTON ROAD

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District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Macclesfield
National Grid Reference:: SJ 90976 72999

Details

SJ 9072 MACCLESFIELD CROMPTON ROAD (West side) 886-1/8/78 Armoury Towers, The Barracks 11/10/73

GV II

Keep and headquarters of militia barracks, now subdivided as flats. 1855-65, converted 1980s. Roughly coursed and squared sandstone rubble with axial and corbelled exterior stacks and plain tiled hipped roof. Picturesque Tudorbethan Revival style. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Round stair towers stand out from each corner, with battered plinths and conical roofs, the roof lost to the rear left, and narrow stepped loop lights. Main range has 3 bays of pointed-arched arcading to ground floor, with central entrance and flanking foiled mullioned and transomed windows recessed. Similar windows in outer bays beneath pointed polychrome relieving arches. Upper 2- and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with banded relieving arches. Similar windows as dormers above. Returns have corbelled exterior stacks heating the attic, with flat-topped half dormers either side. Metal-framed casement windows. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: probably formed the headquarters building and the keep, or secure armoury , for the regiment. Erected following the Militia Act (1852) to provide a secure store for equipment, an armoury , NCO's barracks and drilling space- Many local militia used the barracks as an emblematic focus for the regiment. Macclesfield is not only one of the largest, but also one of the most picturesque of the militia barracks, being a richly-detailed composition of considerable architectural invention, of which the former keep was the centrepiece.

Listing NGR: SJ9096173009

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Legacy System number:: 390978
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.