Former Town Hall
FORMER TOWN HALL, TOFT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378496
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER TOWN HALL, TOFT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378496
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER TOWN HALL, TOFT ROAD
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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:
- FORMER TOWN HALL, TOFT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knutsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75173 78540
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 TOFT ROAD 792-1/3/109 (East side) 15/01/74 Former Town Hall
GV II
Town hall, now in commercial use. 1871. Alfred Waterhouse. Red brick with blue brick dressings and plain tiled roof with scalloped bands and ridge cresting. Main range and lower staircase block to NW, parallel rear range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic. arcaded ground floor of 5 bays, with blue brick squat cylindrical columns on red brick bases and with red brick stiff-leaf capitals. Projecting gabled entrance porch to the left, with deeply moulded arched entrance. Blue brick bands and rosette frieze to ground floor, upper 3-light Gothic windows with blind terracotta panels with interlace decoration below, and terracotta hoodmoulds. Arms in low relief panels each side. Triangular corbelled eaves cornice. 3 gabled dormers in the roof, with quatrefoil lights and decorative brick cornice. Leaded spirelet to roof. Staircase block to left, with stepped windows to stair. Parallel rear range presumably built to house offices, of 3 storeys, with subsidiary entrance tower at SW angle. Axial and end stacks. INTERIOR: lofty main hall at upper level, with cambered trusses to roof, braced with wrought-iron ties. Panelled gallery projects from north wall, carried on paired struts. Stone staircase with heavy newels and wrought-iron rails.
Listing NGR: SJ7517378540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476446
- 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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