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Broad Terraces

A Grade II Listed Building in Knutsford, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2971 / 53°17'49"N

Longitude: -2.3654 / 2°21'55"W

OS Eastings: 375743

OS Northings: 377857

OS Grid: SJ757778

Mapcode National: GBR CZX9.PS

Mapcode Global: WH997.MDT6

Plus Code: 9C5V7JWM+RR

Entry Name: Broad Terraces

Listing Date: 27 May 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1388392

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476403

ID on this website: 101388392

Location: Over 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 Cross

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description



KNUTSFORD

SJ77NE LEGH ROAD
792-1/2/74 (West side)
Broad Terraces

GV II

House. c1907. By Richard Harding Watt. Render over brick with
pantiled roof. Italianate detail. Main block facing garden is
square in plan linked by tower to lower wing towards street
containing stair hall and service, the entrance in porch at
the angle of the 2 blocks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Stilted arched entrance in porch with
balustraded parapet above. Raised panels each side of doorway
with consoles carrying cornice. Narrow windows on each floor
in wing to right.
Central stair window in return elevation facing street,
round-arched with foliate capitals to architrave, carried on
sill projecting on brackets. Random stone projecting blocks
and lengths of cornice set into wall.
Tower to left of porch has Palladian windows in upper storey
with foliate capitals, and narrow lower windows. Beyond the
tower a full-height canted bay with stilted arches and long
keystones to ground-floor windows, inscription on continuous
string course below upper windows. The bay is flanked by a
single-light window on each floor to the right.
Tight symmetrical garden front, with 2 wide windows each side
at first-floor level, and fluted Doric columns carrying heavy
entablature over paired French doors with margin lights to
lower floor, with cast-iron rails to balcony carried on heavy
block corbels. Balconette with cast-iron rail to central first
floor window. Basement below has 2 segmentally-arched doors
each side of central recess with small original window.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
One of a remarkable series of buildings erected in Legh Road
under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt: see The Old Croft
(qv).

Listing NGR: SJ7574377857

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