Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667954

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)