Description

SJ77NE
792-1/2/77

KNUTSFORD
LEGH ROAD
(West side)

High Morland Lodge

II

GV

Lodge house. 1903. By William Longworth. For Richard Harding
Watt. White render over brick with stone dressings and
pantiled roofs. Edwardian Free style.
Tower to rear with angle pilasters and pyramidal roof.
Irregular central pilaster to tower, and random projecting
blocks and decorative stone work. Narrow upper lights. Lean-to
block to rear of tower.
2-storeyed flat-roofed block to street-front with 3-windows in
return elevation, and narrow lights on each floor facing the
street. Random stone blocks project from the wall surfaces,
stepped parapet. Round corbelled turret to the right, and
gateway adjoining to the left, with heavy pantiled roof
overhanging above entablature itself projecting over segmental
brick relieving arch of gateway.
Northern return has round-arched window to left, and doorway
to right below the tower. Single-storeyed range beyond tower
links to smaller round tower beyond.
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: SJ 75762 77954

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667945

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Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)