WEST PARK MUSEUM

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:: WEST PARK MUSEUM, PRESTBURY ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 391089
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.