THE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136190
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1976
- Statutory Address:
- THE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, EARLE STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, EARLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70670 55787
Details
SJ 75 NW FORMER BOROUGH OF CREWE EARLE STREET
2/45 The Municipal Buildings
6.7.76
GV II
Council Offices, 1902-1905 by H T Hare in English
Baroque style. Yellow sandstone ashlar with stone slate gable roof.
2½ storeys and basement, 5 bays. 3 centre bays recessed for 2
storeys, flanked and separated by giant unfluted Ionic columns. Small
Tuscan column mullions to ground floor windows, in outer bays. Deeply
recessed semi-circular headed entrance with wrought iron gates and oak
screen with double doors. This is flanked by timber mullion and
centre-arched transome windows with matching archivolts and cartouche
keystones. Pairs of large reclining figures, carved in relief by
F.E.E.Schenck, surmount the three centre openings. Cross windows with
stone eared architraves at first floor level and segmental bracketted
balconies to outer bays. Dentilled and bracketted eaves cornice.
Dormer windows to second floor centre bays with small pediments above
and fronted by balustraded parapet. End bay windows are bullseyes
with egg and dart and festoon treatment. Copings to gables, stone
chimneys and cupola with vane and locomotive finial.
Interior: Tuscan columns in entrance hall, York stone geometrical
staircase, marble Ionic columns and a window in Venetian style in the
Council Chamber. Hardwood doors, in elaborate frames, and plasterwork
based on festoons and egg and dart moulds.
Listing NGR: SJ7067055787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56688
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing