Lake House

KNUTSFORD

SJ7478 LEGH ROAD 792-1/3/80 (West side) Lake House

GV II

House. 1902. Richard Harding Watt. Roughcast, painted white, with painted stone dressings and pantiled roof. Edwardian Free style. PLAN: planned as a series of blocks with tower facing garden linked by 2 further blocks housing principal rooms to lower wing towards street, with porch in angle of the 2 wings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Segmental-plan porch with door and pedimented window above, and stepped parapet over. 3-light window to right of doorway, and irregular fenestration of 1 and 2 lights to left. In elevation facing street, a 2-storey bow window with inscription over single narrow first-floor offset light. Main block to left of doorway has heavy lintels or pediments over ground-floor windows, all of 2 lights. Upper windows of 1 and 2 lights. Block beyond has basement storey with round-arched doorway, and paired windows with continuous stone lintel. Balcony above in angle with round tower. Irregular stepped parapet to flat roof, scatter of randomly projecting blocks and cornice-work in walling. Tower has rusticated and battered basement storey, with windows grouped in threes above and as pairs in the second stage. Irregular fenestration including some blind windows in upper stages. Chunky 3-light mullioned and transomed oriel in upper storey carried on heavy blocks. Irregular parapet with some pierced arcading and incorporating chimney. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a remarkable series of Edwardian Free Style compositions erected in Legh Road under the patronage of Richard Harding Watt: see The Old Croft (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ7573778027