Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ77NE CHELFORD ROAD
792-1/2/6 (South West side)
18/01/49 Old Court House and West Court
(Formerly Listed as:
CHELFORD ROAD
Old Court House)

GV II

House, now divided as 2 dwellings. Probably early C17,
extended late C18 or early C19. Original section probably
timber-framed now rendered over, the rest brick, some painted.
Stone-flagged and Welsh slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: original building a small gabled range, externally
2-storeyed, but open to the roof inside. Canted bay to ground
floor in gable, with fixed light wood mullion with leaded
lights in jettied upper storey. Fixed-light 6- and 3-light
mullioned window in return elevation to right.
Rear of this gabled range may be a somewhat later addition:
brick with Welsh slate roof, and inserted windows in gable
end. Stack on right-hand gable wall.
Late C18 extension adjoins this building to the left: painted
brick with hipped slate roof. 2-storeyed, square in plan
comprising a single room on each floor. Tripartite sashes with
flat-arched brick heads in east elevation, paired 12-pane
sashes to south. Wrought-iron brackets to overhanging eaves.
At the rear angle of this block, a single-storey porch with
chamfered pointed entrance arch gives access to hall contained
in a small tower built against the original range, square in
plan and with pyramidal roof. Lean-to against ground floor of
original range links to single-storey hipped roofed extension
(probably late C19) with gable facing south.
West Court forms a separate dwelling to the north, but was
formerly part of the same building. It comprises 2 parallel
2-storeyed 4-window ranges.
Rear (west) range early C19. Brick with 30-pane sash windows
to first floor, with flat-arched brick heads and stone sills.
Painted brick east range seems somewhat later, but may have
been re-fenestrated.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the original building said to have been the Old Court
Room itself, the interior of the full-height hall containing
C17 panelling possibly not in situ.

Listing NGR: SJ7598677848

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667871

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Recommended Books

• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  For the Record
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)