Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ7478 LEGH ROAD
792-1/3/80 (West side)
Lake House

GV II

House. 1902. Richard Harding Watt. Roughcast, painted white,
with painted stone dressings and pantiled roof. Edwardian Free
style.
PLAN: planned as a series of blocks with tower facing garden
linked by 2 further blocks housing principal rooms to lower
wing towards street, with porch in angle of the 2 wings.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Segmental-plan porch with door and
pedimented window above, and stepped parapet over. 3-light
window to right of doorway, and irregular fenestration of 1
and 2 lights to left. In elevation facing street, a 2-storey
bow window with inscription over single narrow first-floor
offset light. Main block to left of doorway has heavy lintels
or pediments over ground-floor windows, all of 2 lights. Upper
windows of 1 and 2 lights.
Block beyond has basement storey with round-arched doorway,
and paired windows with continuous stone lintel. Balcony above
in angle with round tower. Irregular stepped parapet to flat
roof, scatter of randomly projecting blocks and cornice-work
in walling.
Tower has rusticated and battered basement storey, with
windows grouped in threes above and as pairs in the second
stage. Irregular fenestration including some blind windows in
upper stages. Chunky 3-light mullioned and transomed oriel in
upper storey carried on heavy blocks. Irregular parapet with
some pierced arcading and incorporating chimney.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
One of a remarkable series of Edwardian Free Style
compositions erected in Legh Road under the patronage of
Richard Harding Watt: see The Old Croft (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ7573778027

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667947

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014