Bespoke 2017 contemporary house with glazed central hall, open-plan family core and passive-house-style services
Home 170 · For sale
Chimneys
Legh Road, Knutsford, Cheshire
Independent reading
A bespoke 2017 contemporary house of about 6,300 sq ft on Knutsford's Legh Road, with four full bedroom suites, five reception spaces, ground-source heating and gated half-acre grounds.
At £3.95m, the original agent's approximately 6,300 sq ft denominator gives about £627 per sq ft; current distribution also reports 6,531 sq ft, or about £605 per sq ft. Both are marketing calculations, not valuations, and signed component measurement must reconcile the range.
Bedrooms4
Publisher-stated area6,300 sq ft
The 30-second view
Three things worth knowing.
Whether title, signed area, 2017 completion/warranty records and independent fabric and ground-source surveys support the apparent £605–£627 per attributed sq ft without hidden systems or conservation-area liabilities.
The bespoke finish and low-energy narrative are publisher-attributed. Signed measurement, approvals, warranties, plant condition and actual bills matter more than presentation quality.
Consider the next stepUnderstand the purchase.
Explore costs, work back from your budget, and discover three alternatives.
+
Understand the purchase.
Explore costs, work back from your budget, and discover three alternatives.
A clearer purchase / Chimneys
The house price is
only the beginning.
A private illustration for an individual buying one residential property. Choose the property’s tax location before calculating. Your answers stay on this page.
Ownership and main-residence replacement rules matter. Select based on your circumstances; owning another home does not always mean the surcharge applies.
Tax rates checked 26 October 2026. Rules can change; verify for your completion date.
HMRC SDLT ↗Non-resident rules ↗Welsh LTT ↗Scottish LBTT ↗Scottish ADS ↗Another possibility
What else could
this budget buy?
At or below this home’s recorded reference of £3,950,000. Up to three other admitted £2.5m+ homes recorded for sale, ordered by nearest asking price below the ceiling. Location, condition, tax and ownership costs differ. Availability requires confirmation.
26 Vernon Road
Marine Estate, Leigh-on-Sea
£3,950,000Four-storey contemporary coastal residence
- Bedrooms
- 6
- Recorded area
- 5,640 sq ft
- Recorded land
- Unknown
- Ownership intensity
- High · editorial
Source checked: 3 Sep 2026
Explore this home ↗Cobblers
Spinfield Lane West, Marlow
Offers over £3,950,000Individual 1992 luxury house with contemporary family, leisure and guest programme
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Recorded area
- 6,447 sq ft
- Recorded land
- Unknown
- Ownership intensity
- High · editorial
Source checked: 30 Oct 2026
Explore this home ↗Corbar Close Residence
Corbar Close, Hadley Wood
£3,950,000Outstandingly modernised private-road residence
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Recorded area
- 6,530 sq ft
- Recorded land
- Unknown
- Ownership intensity
- High · editorial
Source checked: 4 Sep 2026
Explore this home ↗How we assess this homeOptional scores, the reasons behind them and the detailed decision tools.+
These are Aveno’s editorial assessments, not valuations, survey findings or guarantees. Design scores describe the selection; data-readiness scores describe how complete the recorded evidence is. Higher scores do not mean fewer purchase risks.
Why this belongs in Aveno
Remarkable is
an evidence test.
Flagship intelligence96remarkability / 100
PUBLISHED after READY admission: current original sale, exact named identity, measured-area range, complete buyer dossier and exact official Vimeo bridge are present; playback is access-unavailable and not claimed, and no third-party still is copied or rehosted.
Luxury and condition24/25
The current publisher documents high-specification 2017 construction and meticulous upkeep; independent condition evidence remains buyer-side.
Design and character25/25
The glazed central hall, layered open-plan core and tailored principal suite form a distinctive coherent commission.
Privacy and setting23/25
Electric gates, mature planting and approximately half an acre provide strong privacy close to central Knutsford.
Lifestyle24/25
Five reception uses, gym option, office, four suites, smart systems and integral garaging provide a comprehensive programme.
- A coherent bespoke contemporary house on Knutsford's premier residential road.
- Glazed arrival, generous entertaining programme and mature gated grounds create a complete luxury proposition.
- Named exact-property identity and a current official publisher-film bridge.
- Current original instruction.
- Exact named full-postcode Vimeo title.
- Current exact-address identity evidence.
- Disclosed measured-area range.
- Complete decision-oriented buyer questions and tax calculations.
- Title and rights pack.
- Signed component measurement.
- Approvals, warranties, direct EPC and condition.
- Actual costs and adjusted comparables.
Aveno Decision Engine · live model
What does the evidence
change?
Current buyer actionINVESTIGATE — VERIFY TITLE, AREA, APPROVALS, WARRANTIES, PLANT AND COSTS
The design and location are exceptional; legal, component-area and systems evidence decide the offer.
Identity confidence100%
Chimneys, Legh Road, Knutsford, Cheshire
The current original instruction, exact publisher-player title, current distribution and exact-address EPC-derived record align the Chimneys name, Legh Road, full postcode, £3.95m price, accommodation, area and defining features.
UPRNStill protected
01
Premium test
Is the asking premium supported?
Guide midpoint£3,950,000£6,749 / m²
versusLocal evidence benchmarkWithheld0 size-known local references
Subject vs unadjusted evidence—
ReferenceDateAreaPrice / ask£/m²
Resulting referenceWithheldNot a valuation. It exposes how much premium the evidence must justify.
The references are not a surveyor-selected valuation set. Recency, condition, land, architecture and improvements are not fully adjusted. Aveno shows the gap instead of hiding it behind false precision.
02
True ownership load
The cost after the keys.
Five-year cost above purchase price£552,750–£807,750SDLT + disclosed transaction extras + acquisition checks + modelled running and replacement allowances. Mortgage interest and major defects excluded.
Energy and building servicesPublisher attributes approximately £6,000–£7,000 total annual energy costs; range allows verification and non-energy plant servicing.£6,000–£14,000modelled
Gardens and exteriorPlanning range only for approximately half an acre, gates, terraces and mature landscaping; replace with contracts and survey.£8,000–£20,000modelled
Insurance, security and maintenance reservePlanning range only for a high-specification 6,300-plus sq ft house with smart systems and ground-source plant.£16,000–£42,000modelled
03
Claim audit
Marketing claim → buyer consequence.
Evidence readiness89/100
Tap the evidence cards as if the seller supplied them. Aveno recalculates the decision—not the beauty.
PROCEED TO VALUATION04
Property memory
The home’s price story.
Direct transaction memory is not yet matched.
This history does not prove fair value. It tells the buyer exactly how much of the current price must be explained by market growth, improvements, specification and scarcity.
Look beyond the listingSale history · heritage · planning evidenceOpen official records
Sources, facts and unanswered questionsRead the evidence ledger, publisher notes and questions to investigate.+
Official evidence map
What is matched.
What is withheld.
Land Registry can establish sale history; EPC can reveal rated floor area and energy assumptions; Planning Data can surface constraints by UPRN or coordinate. A link alone is never counted as intelligence.
connected
Original market evidence
Current £3.95m Available exact-property instruction.
Source ↗partialArea
Current sources attribute approximately 6,300–6,531 sq ft; signed component measurement outstanding.
Source ↗connectedOfficial film
Exact publisher Vimeo 1197644461 for Chimneys.
Source ↗not matchedTitle, approvals and costs
Registered title/UPRN, approvals, warranties and actual operating records not connected.
Source ↗Published / verified
- The current original instruction offers the Legh Road house at £3.95m and marks it Available.
- The original instruction attributes around 6,300 sq ft, four bedrooms, four bathrooms, five reception spaces, Freehold tenure, Band H and about half an acre.
- The exact current publisher film is Vimeo 1197644461, titled for Chimneys, Legh Road, Knutsford, WA16 8NT.
- Exact-address EPC-derived records identify Chimneys as a detached house at WA16 8NT; the current area record is 448 m² while current market distribution reports up to 6,531 sq ft, requiring signed reconciliation.
- Publisher-attributed services include underfloor heating, a ground-source heat pump, integrated data/CCTV and approximately £6,000–£7,000 annual energy costs; bills and scope remain to verify.
- Standard-rate SDLT at £3.95m is £387,750; the additional-property illustration is £585,250. Buyer circumstances and completion-date rules require professional confirmation.
Investigate next
- Obtain the registered title, plan and UPRN; verify boundaries, access, conservation-area constraints, easements, covenants and responsibility for gates, drainage and services.
- Commission a signed RICS component measurement reconciling the approximately 6,300 sq ft original-agent claim, 6,531 sq ft distribution claim and 448 m² exact-address EPC-derived record.
- Obtain planning, Building Control, completion certificates, design records and warranties for the 2017 build and any later alterations.
- Commission building, roof, drainage, electrical, ground-source, underfloor-heating, glazing and smart-system surveys; obtain the direct current EPC and service histories.
- Request three years of utilities, insurance, security, landscaping and maintenance records plus condition-adjusted completed-sale evidence.
Still unknown
- Registered title, UPRN, exact boundaries, covenants, access and service obligations.
- Signed principal and ancillary component areas and reconciliation of 6,300, 6,531 and 448 m² records.
- Complete approvals, warranties, direct EPC and independent condition record.
- Actual energy, security, grounds, insurance and maintenance costs.
- Condition-adjusted completed-sale comparables.
Primary publisher · visual-rights recordStuart Rushton & CoOpen original source ↗Open rights-basis evidence ↗
Stuart Rushton & Co's current exact instruction and inventory were rechecked on 3 November 2026: live at £3.95m with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, five reception spaces, around 6,300 sq ft, about half an acre and a Video walkthrough. Exact Vimeo 1197644461 currently identifies Chimneys, Legh Road, Knutsford, WA16 8NT and supplies its publisher-controlled cover URL; the cover image itself could not be independently rendered after the request failed. Current distribution reports 6,531 sq ft; the 6,300–6,531 range is retained pending signed measurement. Official publisher film; playback not independently checked. The current original Stuart Rushton instruction embeds exact Vimeo player 1197644461, titled 'FOR SALE | Chimneys | Legh Road | Knutsford | WA16 8NT'. Vimeo supplies the exact publisher-controlled cover URL stored here; its visual rendering was not independently confirmed after the cover request failed. Aveno links to publisher-controlled records and copies no photograph, film frame or footage. Playback was not independently checked and is not claimed. Original labelled Aveno evidence graphic and original listing link. Third-party material remains the property of its publisher. The publisher does not endorse Aveno’s independent assessment.
Record integritySee something inaccurate or hold better evidence?
Request a correction →Aveno records corrections and preserves the observation date. Owners, agents, architects and rights-holders are invited to provide documentary evidence.
Aveno Time MachineFollow this home’s market history.
Open market timeline →Price, status, withdrawal, relisting and sale signals are preserved as dated observations. Missing history is never reconstructed as fact.