The Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
The Lodge
- WRENN ID
- south-cinder-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Lodge, Legh Road, Knutsford, WA16 8LP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 757 779
- Coordinates
- 53.29765, -2.36509
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lodge is a house that incorporates the former entrance lodge of the Royal Manchester Infirmary. It was originally built around 1830 and later re-erected on the site by Richard Harding Watt, with extensions added around 1906. The building is constructed of ashlar, with later additions of render over brick and features pantiled roofs. It showcases the Edwardian Free style and is designed in the form of a small Greek Doric temple, complete with a pedimented porch at one end and two 12-pane sash windows on the long rear elevation. There are additional structures facing the street, which have plain windows. To the south, there is a tower with a balustraded parapet and a chimney above a round-arched pedestrian passageway, alongside a roofed vehicle gateway with an overhanging roof supported by timber brackets. The interior has not been inspected. The Lodge is part of a notable series of buildings erected on Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt, including The Old Croft.
Local climate
The Lodge 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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