Listed Building: OLD COURT HOUSE AND WEST COURT (1388316)

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