Chantry Dane
CHANTRY DANE, LEGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388394
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry Dane
- Statutory Address:
- CHANTRY DANE, LEGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388394
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry Dane
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANTRY DANE, LEGH ROAD
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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:
- CHANTRY DANE, 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 77883
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ77NE LEGH ROAD 792-1/2/76 (West side) Chantry Dane
GV II
House. 1906. For Richard Harding Watt. Cream render over brick with stone dressings and pantiled roofs. Edwardian Free style. Rectilinear plan with central entrance in eastern elevation. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. east elevation articulated by full-height pilasters forming a series of panels, each side of and above the doorway. Ionic portico porch flanked by 2 narrow windows on each floor. Stone inscription beneath right-hand upper windows. First-floor windows each side of door have round-arched recesses over. Windows to left and right of door have margin lights, others renewed in original openings. Series of small single-light windows to attic storey immediately beneath overhanging eaves. Lower service wing to right linked by high round archway to 2-storey outbuilding with characteristic stepped profile. Rear elevation has projecting central flat-roofed tower with triple windows to ground floor, and 3-light mullioned and transomed window above. Lower block to the left has 2-storey oriel window carried on stepped bracket, and blind panels below eaves. Right hand range has recess to left, stressed with pilasters each side, containing central French doors flanked by windows with margin lights, all with overlights. 3-windows with external shutters to the right divided by 2-storeyed plain pilasters. Blind panels above lintels of first-floor windows, and 6 attic windows divided by pilasters immediately below the overhanging eaves above. Chimney corbelled out from tower. 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: SJ7574777883
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476405
- 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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