White Howe |  Legh Road, Knutsford

A very special Italianate house on the town’s premier road, with the benefit of total privacy set in over an acre of land

and access to a private Island.

White Howe, Legh Road, Knutsford

A stunning Italianate Villa on the towns premier road standing in fabulous private gardens of over an acre with Westerly rear views towards Sanctuary Moor and a fabulous small island around the river Lily

Richard Harding designed and built a number of large houses on Legh Road early in the last century to mirror the architecture he enjoyed when visiting Tuscany and today these Italianate Homes are all Grade II listed as being of national architectural and historic importance. Legh Road is the towns’ premier and most famous road, home to these and other beautiful homes, and on this side of the street the houses enjoy the most fabulous aspect over their own elevated gardens and grounds towards Sanctuary Moor and the River Lily. White Howe is situated in a wonderful position, closer to the town than most, and enjoys one of the very best private garden plots on Legh Road.

White Howe has an excellent wide frontage at street level, and magnificent tiered gardens slope away from the house and a large raised rear terrace enjoys wonderful views. Ultimately the gardens join to the winding river Lily and the wetland area of Sanctuary Moor, and White Howe owns a small private island encircled by the river. The house is very well proportioned with rooms over three floors, many of which enjoy the views to the rear. An excellent planning consent has been obtained (reference numbers 14/3447D, 14/0154M and 14/0161M by the owners to further extend the house out to the side and front, enlarging the kitchen into a family and living area, including an orangery style room which goes out onto the rear terrace overlooking the garden. It also incorporates the opportunity of putting a staircase into the cellar area and creating a games/family room at the lower level. The side extension would also incorporate a corridor leading to a second double garage, which would then provide garaging for four cars in all.

A central reception hall with lovely original staircase, gives access to each of the three reception rooms, two of which, including and impressive main drawing room and sitting room enjoy wonderful long window views over the terrace and gardens at the rear, and there are French doors from the hall to the terrace. A family room links from the hall to a spacious kitchen/breakfast room with a range of hand painted units with granite work surfaces, and this leads through to a utility area, and it is from here and the kitchen, that the planning consent has been obtained to enlarge into a fabulous open space. The 6 bedrooms are laid out over the two upper floors, are very spacious and provide great flexibility depending on the family demographic. A large dual aspect master bedroom over looking the garden has a superb en-suite shower room (recently re-fitted) and another impressive bedroom with walk in bay also overlooks the rear, has an adjacent beautifully re-fitted bathroom and a dressing room. There are two further bedrooms on this level, and they share a WC.

An additional staircase leads from the landing to the upper floor, which comprises a play room or lounge area for teenagers or guests, and there are two further double bedrooms and a bathroom on this level with separate wc.

----------------- Externally the house sits well back from Legh Road with a spacious driveway, excellent parking facilities and a detached double garage with large storage room above. Within the planning permission there is consent for a further double garage. The terrace enjoys lovely Westerly views over the gardens and on the lower tier is a superb heated swimming pool with terraced deck basking in afternoon sunshine. Beyond the pool level is a lower garden, less formal and home to some superb specimen plants. The river Lily runs through this area, which also has some fabulous mature trees.

Knutsford is well known for its quality houses, particularly within the Legh Road Conservation Area, which is famed for its Italianate style architecture, designed and constructed at the turn of the last century by Richard Harding Watt. There are many examples of this style throughout Knutsford, which is extremely pretty with narrow part-cobbled streets. It offers a range of day-to-day shopping facilities and has an abundance of restaurants, brasseries and other eateries to which people travel from far around. The town is also conveniently situated for the motorway network, being about 2½ miles to the M6 at junction 19. The M56 is about one mile further afield, providing access to Manchester city centre, Manchester International Airport and to the west, Chester and North Wales.

01565 757000 35 King Street Knutsford Cheshire WA16 6DW www.srushton.co.uk enquiries@srushton.co.uk

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White Howe Legh Road Knutsford Cheshire, WA16 8LP

Tenure: Freehold Local Auth: East Cheshire BC