Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ77NE LEGH ROAD 792-1/2/81 (West side) 18/05/95 The Round House

GV II

House. c1900. By Richard Harding Watt. Edwardian Free style. The house comprises round tower facing garden, with rectangular block adjoining it facing street. Pedimented doorway to garden up steps in this block, which is surmounted by irregular parapet. 3-storeyed block offset beyond, with irregular fenestration of 1 and 2 lights, some with heavy stone lintels, randomly projecting blocks of stone, and irregular embattled parapet. Paired windows to ground floor of tower and first floor, not aligned. Tower projects from corner of main block, the other corner marked by projecting square bay window wrapping it. Main entrance in the northern return. Paired Ionic pilasters each side of paired doors. Round-arched stair window to the right of the doorway. 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: SJ7573777833

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