The Freemasons Arms Public House
THE FREEMASONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, SILKMILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388425
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Freemasons Arms Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE FREEMASONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, SILKMILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388425
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Freemasons Arms Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FREEMASONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, SILKMILL STREET
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:
- THE FREEMASONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, SILKMILL STREET
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 75138 78640
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 SILKMILL STREET 792-1/3/102 (North side) 24/07/89 The Freemasons Arms Public House
GV II
Silk mill, now public house. Built as a silk mill in 1754; converted into 3 dwellings in 1818; converted into a public house in the 1890s. Painted brick with Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-window range, and 1 blocked window. 2 entrances, with windows each side and between them. 6-panelled doors in steep pedimented cases, probably surviving from conversion as dwellings in 1818. 2-pane sash window to left and between the doorways, tripartite sash to right with rusticated stuccoed head, inserted on conversion to use as public house. Upper windows in left-hand unit are 16-pane sashes with flat-arched brick heads, paired 4-pane sashes to right with rusticated stuccoed heads. Blocked windows in centre, to right of left-hand doorway. Simply moulded wood eaves cornice. End wall and axial stack, one breaking the front slope of the roof. INTERIOR: the basic C18 structure survives intact; the 3 cottages each had one room, entrance hall and stairs; the latter survive in part, one with original rail, balusters and string. Several panelled doors in pegged surrounds. HISTORY: the building is of special interest in that it demonstrates clearly the 3 phases of its development, each with features of some quality. It is also a significant (and rare) relic of Knutsford's silk industry.
Listing NGR: SJ7513878640
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476436
- 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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