Tower House
TOWER HOUSE, 9, DRURY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388329
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Tower House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER HOUSE, 9, DRURY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388329
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Tower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER HOUSE, 9, DRURY LANE
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:
- TOWER HOUSE, 9, DRURY LANE
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 75272 78934
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 DRURY LANE 792-1/3/18 (South side) 12/10/71 No.9 Tower House (Formerly Listed as: DRURY LANE Nos.4-13 (Consecutive) Old Laundry (formerly listed as workshop between 8 & 9). Water Tower & Chimney)
GV II
Tower house, possibly not originally intended for domestic use. c1900. By Richard Harding Watt. Painted brick, with some projecting brick blocks. Flat roof. 5-storeyed, square in plan. Austere style, with small square windows set deep into the wall. Arched entrance in wall adjoining to the right with flamboyant wrought-iron hinges. Tower now terminates in plain parapet, but was formerly surmounted by a wooden gallery and pinnacle in the style of a minaret. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the tower formed part of a complex including laundry and workers' cottages, established by Watt on the site of a tannery. Part of a remarkable development in Free Style built under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt.
Listing NGR: SJ7527278934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476337
- 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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