Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall

Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall, Legh Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388390
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1982
List Entry Name:: Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall
Statutory Address:: Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall, Legh Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388390
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1982
List Entry Name:: Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall
Statutory Address 1:: Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall, Legh Road

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall, 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 77918

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 September 2022 to reformat the text to current standards.

SJ77NE 792-1/2/71

KNUTSFORD LEGH ROAD (west side) Aldwarden Hill and The Gate House and attached screen wall 22/12/82 GV II House, now divided as two dwellings. 1906. By Richard Harding Watt. Rendered over brick with ashlar dressings including random projecting blockwork and pantiled roof.

STYLE: an inventive Edwardian Free Style adaptation of an Italianate villa design.

PLAN: rectilinear plan with principal rooms to rear overlooking garden.

EXTERIOR: two storeys. Off-centre two storey entrance porch, arcaded and with heavy stone architrave. Upper windows in architraves divided horizontally by projecting transom. Two window range to left, the window architraves pedimented to ground floor. Plain irregularly placed windows in right-hand block which has low attic storey lit by windows directly under the eaves, and full-height round-arched stair window. Garden front has central shallow segmental bay with plain openings. To the left paired sashes with margin lights, irregular fenestration to the right, with three round-arched windows, one of them running through the whole height of the building. Blind panelling pierced by two small windows each side of central bay immediately below overhanging eaves. Slightly recessed beyond this, a three window range with windows in architraves, those to ground floor with cornices. Similar windows in basement storey. Many of the windows are sashes unequally divided with a high transom. To the left of the garden front a screen wall with two segmental arches, one blind, links to The Coach House (qv). Roof crowned with belvedere with four arcaded round-headed windows with balustraded sills and hipped roof.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ7574777918

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Legacy System number:: 476401
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.