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Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house)

A Grade II Listed Building in Knutsford, Cheshire East

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Latitude: 53.3015 / 53°18'5"N

Longitude: -2.3737 / 2°22'25"W

OS Eastings: 375192

OS Northings: 378346

OS Grid: SJ751783

Mapcode National: GBR CZV8.W7

Mapcode Global: WH997.H8WV

Plus Code: 9C5V8J2G+HG

Entry Name: Knutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house)

Listing Date: 15 January 1974

Last Amended: 27 May 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1378497

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476447

ID on this website: 101378497

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

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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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