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White Howe

A Grade II Listed Building in Knutsford, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

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

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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

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