Building record 5398 - Firwood, 15 and 17 Leycester Road, Knutsford

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

Firwood was built in 1910 and features an original summerhouse constructed by local craftsmen Henry and Julius Cesar added in 1930.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7677, 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. Kingswood (sic Firwood) is another building in the Arts and Crafts tradition but is much more consciously influenced by Cheshire black-and white half-timbering and survives with many original details intact. It is an ornate black-and-white half-timbered house, with paired projecting gables to the front elevation, pegged construction and decorative panelling and braces, mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights. The plan form with the central dormer window and the off-set chimney stack is identical to Somerford and White Lodge, as is the distribution of windows. Suggests that all were built by the same architect. Clay tiled roof, probably re-roofed.