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Latitude: 53.299 / 53°17'56"N
Longitude: -2.3656 / 2°21'56"W
OS Eastings: 375730
OS Northings: 378062
OS Grid: SJ757780
Mapcode National: GBR CZX9.N4
Mapcode Global: WH997.MBQS
Plus Code: 9C5V7JXM+HQ
Entry Name: White Howe
Listing Date: 27 May 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1388406
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476417
ID on this website: 101388406
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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 LEGH ROAD
792-1/3/87 (West side)
White Howe
GV II
House. 1901. By Walter Aston. For Richard Harding Watt.
Roughcast render with red pantiled roof. Italianate style.
Irregular plan loosely forming main range with flanking towers
to front. Principal rooms to rear overlooking garden, with
entrance hall, and staircase to front, services to north.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Entrance in side wall of high lean-to
porch to left of central range, with tall mullioned and
transomed stair window with leaded lights to its right, and
single window on each floor beyond. Heavy square tower to left
of entrance with arcading to ground floor over small windows,
blind upper storey, and arcaded windows in upper stage. Hipped
roof overhangs on brackets.
Further tower to right of central range, with 2-light window
to ground floor, and pilasters forming arcade between small
windows in upper stage.
Garden front raised above battered terracing: right-hand bay
in tower, with paired 12-pane sash windows on each floor, and
triple arcaded windows with continuous stone sill to upper
stage. French doors in round-arched recess in centre.
Full-height projecting bow to left, with triple windows on
each floor. Projecting stack on left-hand gable, with
Mediterranean-style parapet. Stack breaking through roof to
left of bow.
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: SJ7573078062
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