Brae Cottage
BRAE COTTAGE, LEGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387751
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brae Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BRAE COTTAGE, LEGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387751
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brae Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRAE COTTAGE, LEGH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BRAE COTTAGE, LEGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knutsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75735 77755
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ77NE LEGH ROAD 792-1/2/72 (West side) Brae Cottage
GV II
House. Dated 1898. By Paul Ogden. For Henry Royce. Brick with stone dressings and some timberwork in later wing. Heavy stone-flagged roof. PLAN: irregular plan with central entrance flanked by asymmetrical gables. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Left-hand gabled wing contains full-height canted bay window, with 2-light mullioned and transomed windows in each face, and paired traceried windows to conservatory alongside, contained under continuous swept roof. Asymmetrical rear gable to this wing, with 6-light mullioned window projecting as squared bay beyond the gable. Central entrance in porch with round-arched doorway and flat roof with balustrading. 4-light mullioned and transomed full-height stair window in gable to right of doorway. Dated with initials HR in cartouche in apex of gable, which is coped with ball finials. Brick and mock-timbered service wing off-set to right, a somewhat later addition which originally formed a large wing, which was largely demolished c1917. Axial stacks. INTERIOR: large entrance hall with wall panelling and plaster-panelled ceiling in a C17 style. Similar plasterwork in other principal rooms, and 2 original fireplaces.
Listing NGR: SJ7573577755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475741
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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