19, King Edward Street

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9173NE KING EDWARD STREET 886-1/10/112 (North side) 14/04/49 No.19 (Formerly Listed as: KING EDWARD STREET (North side) No.19 Macclesfield Borough Council Offices)

GV II

House, extended on conversion to offices. c1750 with extensions of 1927. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Original house 3-storeyed, 5-window range with central entrance in advanced pedimented bay. Rusticated door surround in Doric pedimented case. Flanking Palladian windows inserted on conversion. Upper windows are 2-pane sashes renewed in original openings, the central 1st-floor window in stone moulded architrave with segmental pediment, the others with channelled stone heads. Stone angle quoins and modillion eaves cornice. End wall and axial stacks. The building was extended to the right in 1927 with an office block intended to be sympathetic to the original building. 2-storeyed with principal 1st storey reflected in large tripartite window beneath pediment with terracotta relief work. Smaller tripartite window to ground floor and flanking 2-pane sashes. The new building is linked to the original by a narrow segmentally-pedimented bay with a single narrow sash window on each floor and this is mirrored by an identical addition to the left of the original building.

Listing NGR: SJ9161973855