Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ7478 KING STREET
792-1/3/66 (East side)
15/01/74 No.131

GV II

House, now offices. Late C17 with C20 alterations. Painted
brick with heavy slate roof. 2 storeys, 5-window range divided
by heavy brick pilasters with dentilled frieze over, and
moulded string course between the storeys. Central door, with
4 fielded panels, in moulded case with renewed canopy. Windows
all 4-pane sashes with flat-arched heads. Overhanging eaves,
gable end stacks. Lozenge decoration in brickwork of gable.
Rear wall rebuilt mid-late C20.
INTERIOR: refitted mid-late C20.
The facade represents an unusual and notable example of the
naive "Artisan Mannerist" style of C17 provincial work.

Listing NGR: SJ7518478931

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667937

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)