Evington House and Attached Rear Wall and Pier
EVINGTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL AND PIER, CROMPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291779
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Evington House and Attached Rear Wall and Pier
- Statutory Address:
- EVINGTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL AND PIER, CROMPTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291779
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Feb-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Evington House and Attached Rear Wall and Pier
- Statutory Address 1:
- EVINGTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL AND PIER, 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:
- EVINGTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED REAR WALL AND PIER, 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 91002 72985
Details
SJ 9072 MACCLESFIELD CROMPTON ROAD
(West side)
886-1/8/79
Evington House and
11/10/73 attached rear wall and pier
GV II
House at militia barracks, now office. 1855-65, with C20 alterations. Roughly coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ridge and external stacks and plain tiled hipped roof. Picturesque Tudorbethan Revival style. Double depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; asymmetrical 2-window range. Wide gable to left, and entrance in lesser recessed gable to the right. Doorway has pointed banded relieving arch over, and single light window above. Squared bay window in left hand gable with 3-light mullioned and transomed window, and 3-light mullioned window above. Coped gables. End wall stacks, the expressed chimney projecting from the right-hand return truncated.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rear garden wall forming perimeter wall, and terminating in a large round entrance pier with slits in the parapet.
HISTORY: erected following the Militia Act (1852), possibly as office or accommodation for the CO as part of the barracks, to provide secure accommodation, an armoury, NCO's quarters and drilling ground for the newly-formed militia, Many counties 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.
Listing NGR: SJ9100272985
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390979
- 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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