Italy comes to Knutsford

Richard Harding Watt (1842-1913) was a local philanthropist, traveller and idealist with a passion for building, who made his fortune from glove making in Manchester. He worked with four professional architects to transform the townscape of Knutsford with a series of eccentric buildings. I don’t think they actually work in the grey Mancunian townscape. Now the houses on Legh road are the province of Cheshire’s super rich.