High Morland Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1999. Lodge. 3 related planning applications.
High Morland Lodge
- WRENN ID
- former-jamb-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1999
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- High Morland Lodge, Legh Road, Knutsford, WA16 8LP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 757 779
- Coordinates
- 53.29799, -2.36513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Morland Lodge is a lodge house built in 1903 by William Longworth for Richard Harding Watt. It features white render over brick with stone dressings and pantiled roofs, showcasing the Edwardian Free style. The building has a tower at the rear with angle pilasters and a pyramidal roof, along with an irregular central pilaster and decorative stonework. Narrow upper lights are present, and there is a lean-to block behind the tower.
The street-facing side has a two-storeyed flat-roofed block with three windows in the return elevation and narrow lights on each floor. The wall surfaces have random projecting stone blocks and a stepped parapet. To the right, there is a round corbelled turret, and to the left, a gateway with a heavy pantiled roof that overhangs above an entablature, projecting over a segmental brick relieving arch.
On the northern return, there is a round-arched window to the left and a doorway to the right beneath the tower. A single-storeyed range beyond the tower connects to a smaller round tower. The interior has not been inspected. High Morland Lodge is part of a notable series of buildings constructed on Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt, which includes The Old Croft.
Local climate
High Morland 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 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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