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
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1994
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- West Park Museum, Prestbury Road, Macclesfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 909 740
- Coordinates
- 53.263, -2.13658
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Park Museum is a museum built between 1897 and 1898. It is constructed of brick with terracotta dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is single-storeyed and consists of a single room, featuring an entrance in a pedimented Dutch gabled end wall. The exterior includes decorative terracotta panels and a frieze, while the return walls are divided into shallow panels above a plinth and are otherwise blind. A cast-iron and glass verandah runs along the length of the building on the right-hand return, facing the park. The museum is illuminated by a clerestorey in the roof. Inside, the walls of the single exhibition hall are enhanced by a reconstruction of the frieze from the Parthenon. The museum was built for the town and was endowed by Miss Marianne Brocklehurst, a local benefactor.
Local climate
West Park Museum sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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