Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1974. Office. 3 related planning applications.
Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house)
- WRENN ID
- seventh-newel-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1974
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house), Toft Road, WA16 6TA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 751 783
- Coordinates
- 53.3015, -2.37371
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knutsford Town Council Offices, originally built as the residence for the prison governor in 1846 by Edmund Sharpe, is a two-storey brick house with a hipped Welsh slate roof. The building is square in plan and features a central entrance accessed by steps. It has a three-window range, with an entablature above the doorcase and an overlight. The flanking sash windows consist of two- and four-pane designs, while the original twelve-pane sashes remain on the first floor. All windows are set within moulded stone architraves and have a plain stone still band. The structure includes a stone plinth, quoins, and a moulded parapet. A canted bay window on the left-hand return may be a later addition, and the house was extended by one bay to the rear in the late 19th century. The building has axial stacks. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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