Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall
Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall, Legh Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388390
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall
- Statutory Address:
- Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall, Legh Road
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02966/06
- Rights:
- © Mr J M Pickering. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388390
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall, 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:
- Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall, 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 75747 77918
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 September 2022 to reformat the text to current standards.
SJ77NE
792-1/2/71
KNUTSFORD
LEGH ROAD (west side)
Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall
22/12/82
GV
II
House, now divided as two dwellings. 1906. By Richard Harding Watt. Rendered over brick with ashlar dressings including random projecting blockwork and pantiled roof.
STYLE: an inventive Edwardian Free Style adaptation of an Italianate villa design.
PLAN: rectilinear plan with principal rooms to rear overlooking garden.
EXTERIOR: two storeys. Off-centre two storey entrance porch, arcaded and with heavy stone architrave. Upper windows in architraves divided horizontally by projecting transom. Two window range to left, the window architraves pedimented to ground floor. Plain irregularly placed windows in right-hand block which has low attic storey lit by windows directly under the eaves, and full-height round-arched stair window. Garden front has central shallow segmental bay with plain openings. To the left paired sashes with margin lights, irregular fenestration to the right, with three round-arched windows, one of them running through the whole height of the building. Blind panelling pierced by two small windows each side of central bay immediately below overhanging eaves. Slightly recessed beyond this, a three window range with windows in architraves, those to ground floor with cornices. Similar windows in basement storey. Many of the windows are sashes unequally divided with a high transom. To the left of the garden front a screen wall with two segmental arches, one blind, links to The Coach House (qv). Roof crowned with belvedere with four arcaded round-headed windows with balustraded sills and hipped roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ7574777918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476401
- 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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