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Lake House

A Grade II Listed Building in Knutsford, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2986 / 53°17'55"N

Longitude: -2.3655 / 2°21'55"W

OS Eastings: 375737

OS Northings: 378027

OS Grid: SJ757780

Mapcode National: GBR CZX9.P7

Mapcode Global: WH997.MCS1

Plus Code: 9C5V7JXM+FR

Entry Name: Lake House

Listing Date: 27 May 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1388397

English Heritage Legacy ID: 476408

ID on this website: 101388397

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

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

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