Chantry Dane

Chantry Dane is a house built in 1906 for Richard Harding Watt. It features cream render over brick with stone dressings and pantiled roofs, showcasing an Edwardian Free style. The building has a rectilinear plan with a central entrance on the eastern elevation.

The exterior consists of three storeys, with the east elevation highlighted by full-height pilasters that create a series of panels around the doorway. An Ionic portico porch is flanked by two narrow windows on each floor. There is a stone inscription beneath the right-hand upper windows. The first-floor windows on either side of the door are set in round-arched recesses. The windows to the left and right of the door have margin lights, while others have been renewed in their original openings. The attic storey features a series of small single-light windows just below the overhanging eaves.

To the right, a lower service wing is connected by a high round archway to a two-storey outbuilding, which has a characteristic stepped profile. The rear elevation includes a projecting central flat-roofed tower with triple windows on the ground floor, and a three-light mullioned and transomed window above. The lower block to the left has a two-storey oriel window supported by a stepped bracket, with blind panels below the eaves. The right-hand range features a recess to the left, accentuated by pilasters on either side, containing central French doors flanked by windows with margin lights, all topped with overlights. There are three windows with external shutters to the right, separated by two-storeyed plain pilasters. Blind panels are located above the lintels of the first-floor windows, and there are six attic windows divided by pilasters just below the overhanging eaves. A chimney is corbelled out from the tower.

The interior has not been inspected. Chantry Dane is part of a remarkable series of buildings constructed on Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt, which includes The Old Croft.