West Park Museum
WEST PARK MUSEUM, PRESTBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206947
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- West Park Museum
- Statutory Address:
- WEST PARK MUSEUM, PRESTBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206947
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- West Park Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST PARK MUSEUM, PRESTBURY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WEST PARK MUSEUM, PRESTBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Macclesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 90987 74007
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ97SW PRESTBURY ROAD
886-1/4/183 (North side)
West Park Museum
II
Museum. Built 1897-8. Brick with terracotta dressings and Welsh
slate roof. Single-storeyed, single-roomed structure, with
entrance in pedimented Dutch gabled end wall. Decorative
terracotta panels and frieze. Return walls divided into
shallow panels above plinth, otherwise blind. Cast-iron and
glass verandah runs the length of the building on the right
hand return facing the park. The museum is top-lit by
clerestorey in the roof. INTERIOR: the walls of the single
exhibition hall are enriched by a reconstruction of the frieze
from the Parthenon. The museum was built for the town and
endowed by Miss Marianne Brocklehurst, a local benefactor.
Listing NGR: SJ9098774007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391089
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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