13, Drury Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1971. Tower house. 2 related planning applications.
13, Drury Lane
- WRENN ID
- iron-wicket-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1971
- Type
- Tower house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 DRURY LANE 792-1/3/20 (South side) 12/10/71 No.13 (Formerly Listed as: DRURY LANE Nos.4-13 (Consecutive) Old Laundry (formerly listed as workshop between 8 & 9). Water Tower & Chimney)
GV II
Tower house. c1900. By Richard Harding Watt. Painted brick with low pyramidal slate roof overhanging on struts. Severe Germanic style. 4-storeyed with open upper storey. Arched entrance in return elevation, and narrow windows paired in the upper storey, single lights in ground and first floors. Small 2-storeyed cottage extension beyond return elevation, with full-height squared bay window. High entrance arch to left, in wall with hipped roof overhanging on struts, and wide segmentally-arched entrance with wooden main and side gates with Art Nouveau-style iron work. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the tower formed part of a complex including laundry and workers' cottages established by Watt on the site of a dye works and tannery. Part of a remarkable development in Free Style built under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt.
Listing NGR: SJ7529878931
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