Chantry Dane

KNUTSFORD

SJ77NE LEGH ROAD 792-1/2/76 (West side) Chantry Dane

GV II

House. 1906. For Richard Harding Watt. Cream render over brick with stone dressings and pantiled roofs. Edwardian Free style. Rectilinear plan with central entrance in eastern elevation. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. east elevation articulated by full-height pilasters forming a series of panels, each side of and above the doorway. Ionic portico porch flanked by 2 narrow windows on each floor. Stone inscription beneath right-hand upper windows. First-floor windows each side of door have round-arched recesses over. Windows to left and right of door have margin lights, others renewed in original openings. Series of small single-light windows to attic storey immediately beneath overhanging eaves. Lower service wing to right linked by high round archway to 2-storey outbuilding with characteristic stepped profile. Rear elevation has projecting central flat-roofed tower with triple windows to ground floor, and 3-light mullioned and transomed window above. Lower block to the left has 2-storey oriel window carried on stepped bracket, and blind panels below eaves. Right hand range has recess to left, stressed with pilasters each side, containing central French doors flanked by windows with margin lights, all with overlights. 3-windows with external shutters to the right divided by 2-storeyed plain pilasters. Blind panels above lintels of first-floor windows, and 6 attic windows divided by pilasters immediately below the overhanging eaves above. Chimney corbelled out from tower. 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: SJ7574777883