High Morland Lodge

SJ77NE 792-1/2/77

KNUTSFORD LEGH ROAD (West side)

High Morland Lodge

II

GV

Lodge house. 1903. By William Longworth. For Richard Harding Watt. White render over brick with stone dressings and pantiled roofs. Edwardian Free style. Tower to rear with angle pilasters and pyramidal roof. Irregular central pilaster to tower, and random projecting blocks and decorative stone work. Narrow upper lights. Lean-to block to rear of tower. 2-storeyed flat-roofed block to street-front with 3-windows in return elevation, and narrow lights on each floor facing the street. Random stone blocks project from the wall surfaces, stepped parapet. Round corbelled turret to the right, and gateway adjoining to the left, with heavy pantiled roof overhanging above entablature itself projecting over segmental brick relieving arch of gateway. Northern return has round-arched window to left, and doorway to right below the tower. Single-storeyed range beyond tower links to smaller round tower beyond. 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: SJ 75762 77954