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
Country
England
Date first listed
15 January 1974
Type
Office
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 17/11/2020

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KNUTSFORD TOFT ROAD (west side) Knutsford Town Council offices (former prison governor’s house)

(Formerly listed as Macclesfield Borough Council Offices, previously listed as: TOFT ROAD Urban District Council Offices)

15/01/74

GV II House, built as residence for prison governor (Sessions House,qv), now offices. 1846 by Edmund Sharpe. Brick with hipped Welsh slate roof. Square in plan with central entrance up steps. Two storeys; three-window range. Entablature to doorcase, and overlight to door. Flanking sash windows of two- and four-panes, the original twelve-pane sashes surviving to first floor. All windows in moulded stone architraves with plain still band. Stone plinth, quoins and moulded parapet. Canted bay window in left-hand return possibly a later addition, and the house was extended by one bay to the rear in the later C19. Axial stacks.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ7519278346

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