Lake House
LAKE HOUSE, LEGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388397
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lake House
- Statutory Address:
- LAKE HOUSE, LEGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388397
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lake House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAKE HOUSE, 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:
- LAKE HOUSE, 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 75737 78027
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 LEGH ROAD 792-1/3/80 (West side) Lake House
GV II
House. 1902. Richard Harding Watt. Roughcast, painted white, with painted stone dressings and pantiled roof. Edwardian Free style. PLAN: planned as a series of blocks with tower facing garden linked by 2 further blocks housing principal rooms to lower wing towards street, with porch in angle of the 2 wings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Segmental-plan porch with door and pedimented window above, and stepped parapet over. 3-light window to right of doorway, and irregular fenestration of 1 and 2 lights to left. In elevation facing street, a 2-storey bow window with inscription over single narrow first-floor offset light. Main block to left of doorway has heavy lintels or pediments over ground-floor windows, all of 2 lights. Upper windows of 1 and 2 lights. Block beyond has basement storey with round-arched doorway, and paired windows with continuous stone lintel. Balcony above in angle with round tower. Irregular stepped parapet to flat roof, scatter of randomly projecting blocks and cornice-work in walling. Tower has rusticated and battered basement storey, with windows grouped in threes above and as pairs in the second stage. Irregular fenestration including some blind windows in upper stages. Chunky 3-light mullioned and transomed oriel in upper storey carried on heavy blocks. Irregular parapet with some pierced arcading and incorporating chimney. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a remarkable series of Edwardian Free Style compositions erected in Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt: see The Old Croft (qv).
Listing NGR: SJ7573778027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476408
- 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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