Broad Terraces
BROAD TERRACES, LEGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388392
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Broad Terraces
- Statutory Address:
- BROAD TERRACES, LEGH ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-01-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/02966/03
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388392
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Broad Terraces
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROAD TERRACES, 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:
- BROAD TERRACES, 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 75743 77857
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ77NE LEGH ROAD 792-1/2/74 (West side) Broad Terraces
GV II
House. c1907. By Richard Harding Watt. Render over brick with pantiled roof. Italianate detail. Main block facing garden is square in plan linked by tower to lower wing towards street containing stair hall and service, the entrance in porch at the angle of the 2 blocks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Stilted arched entrance in porch with balustraded parapet above. Raised panels each side of doorway with consoles carrying cornice. Narrow windows on each floor in wing to right. Central stair window in return elevation facing street, round-arched with foliate capitals to architrave, carried on sill projecting on brackets. Random stone projecting blocks and lengths of cornice set into wall. Tower to left of porch has Palladian windows in upper storey with foliate capitals, and narrow lower windows. Beyond the tower a full-height canted bay with stilted arches and long keystones to ground-floor windows, inscription on continuous string course below upper windows. The bay is flanked by a single-light window on each floor to the right. Tight symmetrical garden front, with 2 wide windows each side at first-floor level, and fluted Doric columns carrying heavy entablature over paired French doors with margin lights to lower floor, with cast-iron rails to balcony carried on heavy block corbels. Balconette with cast-iron rail to central first floor window. Basement below has 2 segmentally-arched doors each side of central recess with small original window. 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: SJ7574377857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476403
- 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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