The former Town Hall and Market Hall dated 1871, is now the premises of The Lost & Found pub, located on Princess Street.
The Grade II listed building was designed by the architect Alfred Waterhouse and built in 1871. It was financed by the Egerton family of Tatton Hall who were Lords of the Manor. The Egerton Coat of Arms can be seen below the date on the building.
The buildings last use under the Egerton family was as a boy’s club.
The description given by British Listed Buildings reads as follows;
"SJ7478 TOFT ROAD
792-1/3/109 (East side)
15/01/74 Former Town Hall
GV II
Town hall, now in commercial use. 1871. Alfred Waterhouse. Red
brick with blue brick dressings and plain tiled roof with
scalloped bands and ridge cresting. Main range and lower
staircase block to NW, parallel rear range.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic. arcaded ground floor of 5
bays, with blue brick squat cylindrical columns on red brick
bases and with red brick stiff-leaf capitals. Projecting
gabled entrance porch to the left, with deeply moulded arched
entrance. Blue brick bands and rosette frieze to ground floor,
upper 3-light Gothic windows with blind terracotta panels with
interlace decoration below, and terracotta hoodmoulds. Arms in
low relief panels each side. Triangular corbelled eaves
cornice. 3 gabled dormers in the roof, with quatrefoil lights
and decorative brick cornice. Leaded spirelet to roof.
Staircase block to left, with stepped windows to stair.
Parallel rear range presumably built to house offices, of 3
storeys, with subsidiary entrance tower at SW angle. Axial and
end stacks.
INTERIOR: lofty main hall at upper level, with cambered
trusses to roof, braced with wrought-iron ties. Panelled
gallery projects from north wall, carried on paired struts.
Stone staircase with heavy newels and wrought-iron rails.
Listing NGR: SJ75173785402
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