Heath House Numbers 19 and 20 and Attached Railings
HEATH HOUSE, 19 AND 20, GASKELL AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388340
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Heath House Numbers 19 and 20 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- HEATH HOUSE, 19 AND 20, GASKELL AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388340
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Heath House Numbers 19 and 20 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEATH HOUSE, 19 AND 20, GASKELL AVENUE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 19 AND 20 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19 AND 20, GASKELL AVENUE
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:
- HEATH HOUSE, 19 AND 20, GASKELL AVENUE
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 19 AND 20 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 19 AND 20, GASKELL AVENUE
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 74824 78572
Details
SJ 7478 KNUTSFORD GASKELL AVENUE
(South East side)
792/3/29
Nos.19 and 20
18/1/49 Heath House
GV II
Formerly known as: No.19 GASKELL AVENUE.
Pair of houses. Mid C18. Roughcast over brick with slate roof. 3 storeys, 5-window range, unequally divided and comprising 2 dwellings, one with a single room frontage, the other with three. Doorways towards the centre of the elevation, separated
by a window, and with 2-windows to left, single window to right. 6-panelled doors in pedimented cases. Inner windows are 12-pane sashes, the outer windows 16-pane sashes on each floor, with low windows of 6 and 8 panes to attic storey, where the left-hand window is blind. Parallel rear range, and long wing to rear of right-hand unit. Axial and end wall stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HiSTORY: the building has a number of historical and literary associations, and was formerly known as the Cann Office where weights and measures were tested. It was also once the home of Edward Higgins, a C18 highwayman who appears in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Squire's Tale' and 'The Highwayman' of Thomas de Quincey.
Listing NGR: SJ7482478572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476348
- 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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