High Morland and Harding House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1997. House.
High Morland and Harding House
- WRENN ID
- lost-soffit-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1997
- Type
- House
- Address
- High Morland and Harding House, Legh Road, Knutsford
- OS grid reference
- SJ 757 779
- Coordinates
- 53.29818, -2.3655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Morland and Harding House is a house that has been divided into two dwellings, built in 1903 by William Longworth for Richard Harding Watt. The building features roughcast render over brick and a pantiled roof, designed in the Edwardian Free style. It has a rectilinear plan with the main rooms arranged in a series at the rear, stairs at the front, and original service areas concentrated to the left in a tower.
The exterior consists of three storeys. The main entrance was originally located towards the centre but is now to the right of High Morland, framed by a heavy architrave. To the left of the doorway is a pedimented stair window, situated beneath a flat-roofed block with a stepped embattled parapet. The tower, which is linked by a lower bay, features single-light windows on each floor, along with projecting blocks, slits, and random corbelling. An inserted doorway to the right of the original entrance now serves as the entrance to Harding House, with small windows on each floor to its right, featuring round-arched heads on the lower floor just below the eaves.
The rear elevation showcases round-arched windows on the ground floor that create a continuous arcade, with 1- and 2-light windows on the first floor, all having stone sills and lintels with small leaded panes. The top storey windows, located just below the eaves, include 1, 2, and 3-light configurations. The lower bay on the right side has a two-window range, continuing the arcaded ground floor. The tower is slightly recessed to the right and has an overhanging pyramidal roof, with three lights in the open upper stage above decorative corbelling, scattered fenestration below, and some projecting blocks. Outbuildings extend to the right, featuring the characteristic stepped embattled profile associated with Watt. The end wall stacks also have a stepped profile.
The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of a notable series of structures constructed along Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt, which includes The Old Croft.
Local climate
High Morland and Harding House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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