Former Macclesfield Arms Hotel

FORMER MACCLESFIELD ARMS HOTEL, JORDANGATE, MACCLESFIELD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1280005
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1949
List Entry Name:
Former Macclesfield Arms Hotel
Statutory Address:
FORMER MACCLESFIELD ARMS HOTEL, JORDANGATE, MACCLESFIELD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1280005
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1949
List Entry Name:
Former Macclesfield Arms Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER MACCLESFIELD ARMS HOTEL, JORDANGATE, MACCLESFIELD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER MACCLESFIELD ARMS HOTEL, JORDANGATE, MACCLESFIELD

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 91709 73849

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/03/2014


SJ9173NE
886-1/10/105

MACCLESFIELD,
JORDANGATE (West side),
Former Macclesfield Arms Hotel

(Formerly listed as Macclesfield Arms Hotel)

14/04/49

GV II*

Former hotel, disused at time of survey, later converted to offices. Late C18. Flemish bond brick with Welsh slate roof. Main block with flanking pavilions. Main block of 4 storeys, a 5-window range with central entrance. Reeded and roll-moulded painted stone architrave and radial cast-iron fanlight. Lower windows boarded over, the upper windows 16-pane sashes (8-pane to attic storey) with flat-arched gauged brick heads now painted over. Painted stone sills. Lower flanking pedimented pavilion wings each of 2 storeys with Palladian windows to first floor, the lower windows boarded, all set in full-height segmentally-arched recesses. Axial stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ9170973849

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
391011
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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