Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ7478 DRURY LANE
792-1/3/18 (South side)
12/10/71 No.9
Tower House
(Formerly Listed as:
DRURY LANE
Nos.4-13 (Consecutive)
Old Laundry (formerly listed as
workshop between 8 & 9). Water Tower
& Chimney)

GV II

Tower house, possibly not originally intended for domestic
use. c1900. By Richard Harding Watt. Painted brick, with some
projecting brick blocks. Flat roof. 5-storeyed, square in
plan. Austere style, with small square windows set deep into
the wall. Arched entrance in wall adjoining to the right with
flamboyant wrought-iron hinges. Tower now terminates in plain
parapet, but was formerly surmounted by a wooden gallery and
pinnacle in the style of a minaret.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the tower formed part of a complex including laundry
and workers' cottages, established by Watt on the site of a
tannery.
Part of a remarkable development in Free Style built under the
patronage of Richard Harding Watt.

Listing NGR: SJ7527278934

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667883

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)