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Latitude: 53.3041 / 53°18'14"N
Longitude: -2.3745 / 2°22'28"W
OS Eastings: 375138
OS Northings: 378640
OS Grid: SJ751786
Mapcode National: GBR CZV7.Q8
Mapcode Global: WH997.H6HT
Plus Code: 9C5V8J3G+J5
Entry Name: The Freemasons Arms Public House
Listing Date: 24 July 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1388425
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476436
ID on this website: 101388425
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: Pub
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 SILKMILL STREET
792-1/3/102 (North side)
24/07/89 The Freemasons Arms Public House
GV II
Silk mill, now public house. Built as a silk mill in 1754;
converted into 3 dwellings in 1818; converted into a public
house in the 1890s. Painted brick with Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-window range, and 1 blocked window. 2
entrances, with windows each side and between them. 6-panelled
doors in steep pedimented cases, probably surviving from
conversion as dwellings in 1818. 2-pane sash window to left
and between the doorways, tripartite sash to right with
rusticated stuccoed head, inserted on conversion to use as
public house. Upper windows in left-hand unit are 16-pane
sashes with flat-arched brick heads, paired 4-pane sashes to
right with rusticated stuccoed heads. Blocked windows in
centre, to right of left-hand doorway. Simply moulded wood
eaves cornice. End wall and axial stack, one breaking the
front slope of the roof.
INTERIOR: the basic C18 structure survives intact; the 3
cottages each had one room, entrance hall and stairs; the
latter survive in part, one with original rail, balusters and
string. Several panelled doors in pegged surrounds.
HISTORY: the building is of special interest in that it
demonstrates clearly the 3 phases of its development, each
with features of some quality. It is also a significant (and
rare) relic of Knutsford's silk industry.
Listing NGR: SJ7513878640
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