Old Court House and West Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1949. House. 6 related planning applications.
Old Court House and West Court
- WRENN ID
- weathered-brick-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Court House and West Court, Chelford Road, Knutsford, WA16 8LY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 759 778
- Coordinates
- 53.29706, -2.36176
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This property, now divided into two dwellings, probably originated in the early 17th century and was extended in the late 18th or early 19th century. The original section is likely of timber-frame construction, now rendered over, while the rest is brick, some of which is painted. The roofs are covered with stone flags and Welsh slate.
The original building is a small gabled range, externally two storeys high, but open to the roof internally. A canted bay on the ground floor features a fixed light mullion window with leaded lights, set within a jettied upper storey. A fixed-light, six- and three-light mullioned window is found on the return elevation to the right. The rear of this gabled range may be a somewhat later brick addition with a Welsh slate roof, and inserted windows in the gable end. A stack is located on the right-hand gable wall.
A late 18th-century extension adjoins the original building to the left; it is of painted brick with a hipped slate roof and is square in plan, with a single room on each floor. It features tripartite sash windows with flat-arched brick heads on the east elevation, and paired twelve-pane sashes to the south. Wrought-iron brackets support the overhanging eaves. A single-storey porch with a chamfered pointed entrance arch is positioned at the rear angle of this block, providing access to a hall contained within a small tower built against the original range. The tower is square in plan and has a pyramidal roof. A lean-to connects the ground floor of the original range to a single-storey, hipped roofed extension, likely from the late 19th century, with a gable facing south.
West Court forms a separate dwelling to the north, but was formerly part of the same building. It comprises two parallel, two-storey, four-window ranges. The rear (west) range dates to the early 19th century and is of brick construction with thirty-pane sash windows on the first floor, featuring flat-arched brick heads and stone sills. The east range, seemingly somewhat later but possibly re-fenestrated, is of painted brick.
The interior was not inspected, but the original building is believed to have once been the Old Court Room itself. The interior of the full-height hall is said to contain 17th-century panelling, although it is possibly not in its original position.
Local climate
Old Court House and West Court 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 — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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