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Latitude: 53.3032 / 53°18'11"N
Longitude: -2.374 / 2°22'26"W
OS Eastings: 375173
OS Northings: 378540
OS Grid: SJ751785
Mapcode National: GBR CZV7.TL
Mapcode Global: WH997.H7RJ
Plus Code: 9C5V8J3G+7C
Entry Name: Former Town Hall
Listing Date: 15 January 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378496
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476446
ID on this website: 101378496
Location: Knutsford, Cheshire East, Cheshire, WA16
County: Cheshire East
Civil Parish: Knutsford
Built-Up Area: Knutsford
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Knutsford St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: City hall Seat of local government
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 TOFT ROAD
792-1/3/109 (East side)
15/01/74 Former Town Hall
GV II
Town hall, now in commercial use. 1871. Alfred Waterhouse. Red
brick with blue brick dressings and plain tiled roof with
scalloped bands and ridge cresting. Main range and lower
staircase block to NW, parallel rear range.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic. arcaded ground floor of 5
bays, with blue brick squat cylindrical columns on red brick
bases and with red brick stiff-leaf capitals. Projecting
gabled entrance porch to the left, with deeply moulded arched
entrance. Blue brick bands and rosette frieze to ground floor,
upper 3-light Gothic windows with blind terracotta panels with
interlace decoration below, and terracotta hoodmoulds. Arms in
low relief panels each side. Triangular corbelled eaves
cornice. 3 gabled dormers in the roof, with quatrefoil lights
and decorative brick cornice. Leaded spirelet to roof.
Staircase block to left, with stepped windows to stair.
Parallel rear range presumably built to house offices, of 3
storeys, with subsidiary entrance tower at SW angle. Axial and
end stacks.
INTERIOR: lofty main hall at upper level, with cambered
trusses to roof, braced with wrought-iron ties. Panelled
gallery projects from north wall, carried on paired struts.
Stone staircase with heavy newels and wrought-iron rails.
Listing NGR: SJ7517378540
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