The Barracks and Attached Rear Perimeter Wall
THE BARRACKS AND ATTACHED REAR PERIMETER WALL, 5-20, CROMPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280000
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Barracks and Attached Rear Perimeter Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE BARRACKS AND ATTACHED REAR PERIMETER WALL, 5-20, CROMPTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/01618/21
- Rights:
- © Ms Patricia Layhe. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280000
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Barracks and Attached Rear Perimeter Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BARRACKS AND ATTACHED REAR PERIMETER WALL, 5-20, CROMPTON 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:
- THE BARRACKS AND ATTACHED REAR PERIMETER WALL, 5-20, CROMPTON 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 90934 72967
Details
SJ 9072 MACCLESFIELD CROMPTON ROAD
(West side)
886-1/8/76
Nos. 5-20 (Consecutive) The
Barracks and attached
11/10/73 rear perimeter wall
GV II
Militia barracks, now flats. c1860, converted 1980s. Coursed and squared rubble with polychromatic dressings, ridge stacks and plain tiled cross-gabled roofs. Picturesque Tudorbethan Revival style. Double-depth plan, forming one side of the former parade square.
EXTERIOR: one-and-a-half storeys; 5:11:5-window range. A long, picturesque though symmetrically-planned range, composed from 4 attached blocks each one with outer gables and half dormers in between and central 2-centre arched doorways; the outer blocks are attached to the central double unit by linking walls pierced by archways. The central door is a steep pointed archway within a buttress; polychromatic shallow relieving arches over 2- and 3-light mullion windows with metal casements. Above the paired central gable is a square turret corbelled out with a clock and surmounted by pyramidal leaded roof in 2 sections. Rear elevations similar, with small mullion lights under the eaves.
INTERIOR: not inspected. ,
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rear rubble wall enclosing gardens and forming the perimeter wall to the site.
HISTORY: erected following the Militia Reform Act (1852) to provide a secure store for equipment, armoury, and NCO's barracks. Macclesfield is not only one of the largest of the Militia Barracks, but also one of the most picturesque, being a richly-detailed composition of considerable architectural invention.
Listing NGR: SJ9101573030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390976
- 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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