Broad Terraces

KNUTSFORD

SJ77NE LEGH ROAD 792-1/2/74 (West side) Broad Terraces

GV II

House. c1907. By Richard Harding Watt. Render over brick with pantiled roof. Italianate detail. Main block facing garden is square in plan linked by tower to lower wing towards street containing stair hall and service, the entrance in porch at the angle of the 2 blocks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Stilted arched entrance in porch with balustraded parapet above. Raised panels each side of doorway with consoles carrying cornice. Narrow windows on each floor in wing to right. Central stair window in return elevation facing street, round-arched with foliate capitals to architrave, carried on sill projecting on brackets. Random stone projecting blocks and lengths of cornice set into wall. Tower to left of porch has Palladian windows in upper storey with foliate capitals, and narrow lower windows. Beyond the tower a full-height canted bay with stilted arches and long keystones to ground-floor windows, inscription on continuous string course below upper windows. The bay is flanked by a single-light window on each floor to the right. Tight symmetrical garden front, with 2 wide windows each side at first-floor level, and fluted Doric columns carrying heavy entablature over paired French doors with margin lights to lower floor, with cast-iron rails to balcony carried on heavy block corbels. Balconette with cast-iron rail to central first floor window. Basement below has 2 segmentally-arched doors each side of central recess with small original window. 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: SJ7574377857