West Park Museum is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1994. Museum.

West Park Museum

WRENN ID
second-sentry-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1994
Type
Museum
Source
Historic England listing

Description

MACCLESFIELD

SJ97SW PRESTBURY ROAD 886-1/4/183 (North side) West Park Museum

II

Museum. Built 1897-8. Brick with terracotta dressings and Welsh slate roof. Single-storeyed, single-roomed structure, with entrance in pedimented Dutch gabled end wall. Decorative terracotta panels and frieze. Return walls divided into shallow panels above plinth, otherwise blind. Cast-iron and glass verandah runs the length of the building on the right hand return facing the park. The museum is top-lit by clerestorey in the roof. INTERIOR: the walls of the single exhibition hall are enriched by a reconstruction of the frieze from the Parthenon. The museum was built for the town and endowed by Miss Marianne Brocklehurst, a local benefactor.

Listing NGR: SJ9098774007

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