Old Court House and West Court
OLD COURT HOUSE AND WEST COURT, CHELFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388316
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Old Court House and West Court
- Statutory Address:
- OLD COURT HOUSE AND WEST COURT, CHELFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388316
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Old Court House and West Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD COURT HOUSE AND WEST COURT, CHELFORD 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:
- OLD COURT HOUSE AND WEST COURT, CHELFORD 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 75986 77848
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ77NE CHELFORD ROAD 792-1/2/6 (South West side) 18/01/49 Old Court House and West Court (Formerly Listed as: CHELFORD ROAD Old Court House)
GV II
House, now divided as 2 dwellings. Probably early C17, extended late C18 or early C19. Original section probably timber-framed now rendered over, the rest brick, some painted. Stone-flagged and Welsh slate roofs. EXTERIOR: original building a small gabled range, externally 2-storeyed, but open to the roof inside. Canted bay to ground floor in gable, with fixed light wood mullion with leaded lights in jettied upper storey. Fixed-light 6- and 3-light mullioned window in return elevation to right. Rear of this gabled range may be a somewhat later addition: brick with Welsh slate roof, and inserted windows in gable end. Stack on right-hand gable wall. Late C18 extension adjoins this building to the left: painted brick with hipped slate roof. 2-storeyed, square in plan comprising a single room on each floor. Tripartite sashes with flat-arched brick heads in east elevation, paired 12-pane sashes to south. Wrought-iron brackets to overhanging eaves. At the rear angle of this block, a single-storey porch with chamfered pointed entrance arch gives access to hall contained in a small tower built against the original range, square in plan and with pyramidal roof. Lean-to against ground floor of original range links to single-storey hipped roofed extension (probably late C19) with gable facing south. West Court forms a separate dwelling to the north, but was formerly part of the same building. It comprises 2 parallel 2-storeyed 4-window ranges. Rear (west) range early C19. Brick with 30-pane sash windows to first floor, with flat-arched brick heads and stone sills. Painted brick east range seems somewhat later, but may have been re-fenestrated. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the original building said to have been the Old Court Room itself, the interior of the full-height hall containing C17 panelling possibly not in situ.
Listing NGR: SJ7598677848
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476323
- 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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