White Howe is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1999. House. 4 related planning applications.
White Howe
- WRENN ID
- grey-rubble-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1999
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Howe, Legh Road, Knutsford, WA16 8LP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 757 780
- Coordinates
- 53.29897, -2.36561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Howe is a house built in 1901 by Walter Aston for Richard Harding Watt. It is constructed of roughcast render with a red pantiled roof and is designed in an Italianate style. The house has an irregular plan, loosely forming a main range with flanking towers to the front. The principal rooms are located to the rear, overlooking the garden, with an entrance hall and staircase at the front and service areas to the north.
The exterior is two storeys high. The entrance is in a high, lean-to porch on the side wall, to the left of the central range. To the right of the porch is a tall window with mullions, transoms, and leaded lights, with a single window above it. A heavy square tower is located to the left of the entrance, featuring arcading to the ground floor over small windows, a blind upper storey, and arcaded windows in the upper stage. The roof has a hipped overhang supported by brackets. A further tower is situated to the right of the central range, with a two-light window on the ground floor and pilasters forming an arcade between small windows in the upper stage. The garden front is raised above battered terracing. It features a tower with paired 12-pane sash windows on each floor and triple arcaded windows with a continuous stone sill on the upper stage. There are French doors in a round-arched recess in the centre. A full-height projecting bow is situated to the left, with triple windows on each floor. A projecting stack with a Mediterranean-style parapet is on the left-hand gable, with another stack breaking through the roof to the left of the bow.
The interior has not been inspected. White Howe is one of a series of buildings erected in Legh Road and was commissioned by Richard Harding Watt.
Local climate
White Howe 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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