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Former Town Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Knutsford, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3032 / 53°18'11"N

Longitude: -2.374 / 2°22'26"W

OS Eastings: 375173

OS Northings: 378540

OS Grid: SJ751785

Mapcode National: GBR CZV7.TL

Mapcode Global: WH997.H7RJ

Plus Code: 9C5V8J3G+7C

Entry Name: Former Town Hall

Listing Date: 15 January 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1378496

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476446

ID on this website: 101378496

Location: Knutsford, Cheshire East, Cheshire, WA16

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Knutsford

Built-Up Area: Knutsford

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Knutsford St John the Baptist

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: City hall Seat of local government

Description


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

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