White Howe
WHITE HOWE, LEGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388406
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- White Howe
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOWE, LEGH ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02966/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388406
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- White Howe
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOWE, 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:
- WHITE HOWE, 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 75730 78062
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 LEGH ROAD 792-1/3/87 (West side) White Howe
GV II
House. 1901. By Walter Aston. For Richard Harding Watt. Roughcast render with red pantiled roof. Italianate style. Irregular plan loosely forming main range with flanking towers to front. Principal rooms to rear overlooking garden, with entrance hall, and staircase to front, services to north. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Entrance in side wall of high lean-to porch to left of central range, with tall mullioned and transomed stair window with leaded lights to its right, and single window on each floor beyond. Heavy square tower to left of entrance with arcading to ground floor over small windows, blind upper storey, and arcaded windows in upper stage. Hipped roof overhangs on brackets. Further tower to right of central range, with 2-light window to ground floor, and pilasters forming arcade between small windows in upper stage. Garden front raised above battered terracing: right-hand bay in tower, with paired 12-pane sash windows on each floor, and triple arcaded windows with continuous stone sill to upper stage. French doors in round-arched recess in centre. Full-height projecting bow to left, with triple windows on each floor. Projecting stack on left-hand gable, with Mediterranean-style parapet. Stack breaking through roof to left of bow. 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: SJ7573078062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476417
- 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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