Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house)

Knutsford Town Council Offices, Toft Road, Knutsford, WA16 6TA

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378497
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house)
Statutory Address:: Knutsford Town Council Offices, Toft Road, Knutsford, WA16 6TA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378497
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-May-1999
List Entry Name:: Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house)
Statutory Address 1:: Knutsford Town Council Offices, Toft Road, Knutsford, WA16 6TA

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:: Knutsford Town Council Offices, Toft Road, Knutsford, WA16 6TA

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 75192 78346

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 17/11/2020

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KNUTSFORD TOFT ROAD (west side) Knutsford Town Council offices (former prison governor’s house) (Formerly listed as Macclesfield Borough Council Offices, previously listed as: TOFT ROAD Urban District Council Offices)

15/01/74 GV II House, built as residence for prison governor (Sessions House,qv), now offices. 1846 by Edmund Sharpe. Brick with hipped Welsh slate roof. Square in plan with central entrance up steps. Two storeys; three-window range. Entablature to doorcase, and overlight to door. Flanking sash windows of two- and four-panes, the original twelve-pane sashes surviving to first floor. All windows in moulded stone architraves with plain still band. Stone plinth, quoins and moulded parapet. Canted bay window in left-hand return possibly a later addition, and the house was extended by one bay to the rear in the later C19. Axial stacks.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ7519278346

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Legacy System number:: 476447
Legacy System:: LBS

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Hartwell et al & Pevsner, , Pevsner Guide Cheshire, (2011), 422

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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.