The Old Croft
THE OLD CROFT, LEGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388401
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Croft
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CROFT, LEGH ROAD
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- 2001-05-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/03979/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388401
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD CROFT, 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:
- THE OLD CROFT, 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 77597
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ77NE LEGH ROAD 792-1/2/86 (West side) 18/02/91 The Old Croft
GV II
House. Dated 1895. By John Brooke. For Richard Harding Watt who added the tower in 1907 (to designs by W Longworth). Flemish bond brickwork to ground floor, roughcast render above and to tower, red plain tiled roof. Central entrance in main range with cross wings each side, and tower added to north. Principal rooms to rear, with entrance hall and stairs in front, services in tower. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Central doorway in heavy porch with balustrading and leaded canopy. Name and date in relief lettering over the door. 2-light casement window to its right, and narrow lights to left. Tall stair window of 3-lights above to left, and two 2-light casement windows to right. Regular fenestration in left-hand gable, with single 3-light window aligned on ground and first floor. Moulded tie-beam in apex. Irregular fenestration in right-hand gable lighting service stair, with windows of 1, 2 and 3 lights on ground, first and attic storeys, unaligned. Upper windows all leaded casements in moulded wood cases. Diagonal shafts to chimney to right, further stack expressed in left-hand gable. Overhanging eaves with bargeboards in gables. Tower of 1907 projects beyond, to right. Small windows of 1 and 2 lights, unaligned, and irregular stepped parapet in Mediterranean style. Garden front similarly disposed, with central range and 2 flanking wings. Full-height canted bay window wrapped round corner of right-hand wing, with gable over and struts carrying bargeboards. This is matched by left-hand wing, which terminates in paired gables over 6-light casement window to first floor. Stepped parapet and animal leadwork rainwater head suggest direct influence of Watt. Sun-room built out from central range, with casement windows and part-glazed doors linking it to main body of house. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: Richard Harding Watt (1842-1913) was an amateur designer who transformed the townscape of Knutsford with a series of eccentric buildings which are of considerable interest and importance. He used professional architects to put his ideas into practice. Legh Road contains a remarkable series of his houses, of which the Old Croft is the most restrained and conventional. The architect, John Brooke, whose major work (with Edwin Hall) is the Manchester Royal
Infirmary, is of local significance.
Listing NGR: SJ7573777597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476412
- 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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