The Borough of Cheshire East in North West England is one of the four unitary authorities comprising the ceremonial countyArea with an appointed Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff to represent the monarch's interest. of Cheshire.[1]
The historic railway town of Crewe is the largest in the borough, which also includes the towns of Sandbach, Macclesfield, Congleton, Wilmslow, Nantwich, Poynton, Knutsford, Alsager, Bollington and Handforth.[2]
Cheshire East contains 48 of the 142 Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire. Grade I structures are those considered to be “buildings of exceptional interest”.[3]
Name | Location | Architect | Completed | Entry number | Image |
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Adlington Hall | Adlington | 1505 | 1234130 | | |
Brereton Hall | Brereton Green, Brereton | 1585 | 1229329 | | |
Brook Street ChapelGrade I listed active Unitarian and Free Christian chapel in Knutsford, Cheshire. | Adams Hill, Knutsford | 1689 | 1388306 | | |
Chorley Old Hall | Ryleys Lane, Alderley Edge | c. 1330 | 1234539 | | |
Church of St Christopher | Pott Shrigley | 15th century | 1277234 | | |
Church of St James | Stafford Street, Audlem | Late 13th century | 1136872 | | |
Church of St Mary the Virgin | Monks Lane, Acton | 13th century | 1330112 | | |
Church of St Peter | Prestbury | Early to mid-13th century | 1221919 | | |
Churche’s MansionTimber-framed, black-and-white Elizabethan mansion house in Nantwich, Cheshire, one of the very few buildings to have survived the Great Fire of Nantwich in 1583. | Hospital Street, Nantwich | 1577 | 1039605 | | |
Combermere Abbey | Combermere Park, Dodcott cum Wilkesley | Early 16th century | 1136900 | | |
Crewe Hall | Crewe Hall Park, Crewe Green | 1615–1636 | 1138666 | | |
Crown Hotel | 24 & 26 High Street, Nantwich | c. 1584 | 1330054 | | |
Cruck barn approximately 100 yards to west of Arley Hall | Arley Hall, Aston By Budworth | Early 16th century | 1329696 | | |
Delves HallGrade I listed tower house in Doddington Park, Cheshire. | Doddington Park, Doddington | Late 14th century | 1330165 | | |
Doddington Hall18th-century Grade I listed country house in Doddington, Cheshire. | Doddington Park, Doddington | 1777–1798 | 1136840 | | |
Dorfold HallGrade I listed Jacobean mansion house in Acton, Cheshire. | Dorfold Park, Acton | 1616 | 1312869 | | |
Gawsworth Old Hall | Gawsworth | 15th century | 1139500 | | |
Haslington Hall | Holmshaw Lane, Haslington | Late 15th century | 1136283 | | |
Highfields | Woodhouse Lane, Buerton | 1615 | 1330162 | | |
Little Moreton HallMoated half-timbered manor house 4.5 miles (7.2 km) southwest of Congleton in Cheshire, England, the earliest parts of which date from about 1504–1508. | Parish of Odd Rode | Early 16th century | 1161988 | | |
Lovell Telescope | Jodrell Bank, Goostrey | 1952–1957 | 1221685 | | |
Lyme Park | Lyme Park Country Park, Lyme Handley | c. 1570 | 1231685 | | |
Moss HallGrade I listed country house near the village of Audlem, Cheshire, built in 1616. | Audlem | Early 17th century | 1138519 | | |
Peckforton Castle | Peckforton | 1844–1850 | 1135729 | | |
Sandbach CrossesTwo early 9th-century stone Anglo-Saxon crosses in the market place of Sandbach, Cheshire. | Sandbach | Early 9th century | 1159937 | | |
St Luke’s ChurchGrade 1 listed building and an active Anglican parish church in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, dating from about 1430. | Holmes ChapelBuilt-up area and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East. | c. 1430 | 1231322 | | |
Tabley House | Tabley InferiorCivil parish in the borough of Cheshire East, part of the ceremonial county of Cheshire. | 1760–1767 | 1115424 | | |
The Church of St Bertoline | Barthomley | 12th century | 1330063 | | |
The Old Rectory | Church Lane, Gawsworth | Late 16th century | 1139496 | | |
The Old Stable Block, Peover Hall | Peover Hall Park, Peover Superior | 1654 | 1335855 | | |
Woodhey Chapel | Woodhey, Faddiley | Early 17th century | 1312896 | |
See also
- Grade I listed buildings in CheshireGrade I listed buildings in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, split into the four unitary authorities making up the county.