Building record 5248 - Somerford, 19 Leycester Road, Knutsford

<1> Cheshire East Council, 2010, Cheshire East LDF Local List of Historic Buildings (Report). SCH5404.

A fine Arts and Crafts villa in roughcast under a stone slate roof. Early twentieth century

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7577, 1909 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

Not depicted on this map.

<3> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

The building is clearly visible on these aerial photographs.

<4> Cheshire East Council, 2024, Knutsford Legh Road Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan, p.23-4, Appendix 1 (Report). SCH9660.

Houses built along Leycester Road adopt mainly stucco and roughcast. The twentieth century houses have a close affinity with the earlier stucco buildings along Chelford Road, such as The Firs and The White Cottage. Somerford was built as an identical pair with White Lodge. Paired gables to the front elevation, with shallow jetties and projecting massive joist ends, deep overhanging eaves with exposed rafter brackets, roughcast. Mullioned and transomed casement windows. Central segmental-arched projecting porch. Ground floor bay and bow windows. Gable-end stacks and off-set central stack with central flat-topped dormer. Somerford retains its original stone-slate roof and small paned leaded-light casement windows Unusual monolithic chamfered gateposts to driveway, with giant ball finials.