Town Hall and Market Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1978. Town hall, market hall. 1 related planning application.
Town Hall and Market Hall
- WRENN ID
- salt-chalk-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1978
- Type
- Town hall, market hall
- Address
- Town Hall and Market Hall, Hightown, Sandbach, CW11 1AE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 758 608
- Coordinates
- 53.14459, -2.36321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Town Hall and Market Hall, built in 1889 and designed by architect Thomas Bower of Nantwich, is a Grade II listed building in Gothic style. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a façade that showcases two storeys. The central portion consists of four bays, each defined by buttresses and adorned with three-light mullioned windows set in stone surrounds with hood moulds. A string course runs along the first floor, and below it is an open arcaded loggia with four pointed arched openings.
On the right side of the building is a four-stage tower block, which is octagonal at the top and includes a clock face on all four sides. This tower is topped with a pyramidal tiled roof and an open lantern. The entrance below the tower is elaborate, featuring a pointed arched head above a carved stone heraldic panel, flanked by a pair of stone statues that stand high on corbels beneath canopies. To the left is a gabled bay with a four-light stone mullioned and transomed window. The Market Hall, added later, is a plain brick wing with a span roof extending at the rear.
Local climate
Town Hall and Market Hall receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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