Description

MACCLESFIELD

SJ97SW CUMBERLAND STREET
886-1/4/82 (North side)
17/03/77 King's School (original block)

GV II

School. 1854-6 with later extensions and alterations. Original
architect F Bellhouse. Coursed and squared rubble with ashlar
dressings and slate roof.
Main school buildings comprise central full-height hall with
full-height class rooms as aisles to each side, the left-hand
gabled range a later addition dated 1886.
Entrance in gabled porch to right of main hall, which has
3-light mullioned and transomed tiered window. Dated and with
coat of arms in gable apex. Similar tiered window of 4-lights
in left hand gable, which has smaller gables in left hand
return. Right-hand range comprises a series of gables running
at right angles to the main range, also with tiered mullioned
and transomed windows.
Beyond the main range to the left and rear, the former
headmaster's house is probably a somewhat later addition,
though in a similar style. Apparently L-plan (the original
arrangement somewhat obscured by later additions), with 2
parallel gables projecting to the left, and doorway in angle.
Canted bay window in gable wall, and gabled porch (possibly
the original principal entrance) in the adjoining rear range.
INTERIOR: the main school buildings have been bisected with
inserted gallery floors, but retain the original roof
structure with tie beams and principal trusses carried on
cambered wall posts sprung from stone corbels. Traceried
timberwork above each tie beam.

Listing NGR: SJ9139973984

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502100

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)