Manley Knoll is a small country house north of the village of Manley,

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, England. It was designed in 1912 for Llewellyn Jones. Its construction was interrupted by the First World War. In 1922 the interior was remodelled for the Demetriades family by the

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architect James Henry Sellers. In the 1920s a billiard room was added. The house is constructed in buff-brown brick with orange brick dressings, and some

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and

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. The roofs are tiled. Its architectural style has been described as

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, or eclectic

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Revival. It has an irregular linear plan. The entrance front is asymmetrical, in two storeys, with an off-centre porch. To the left of the porch is a timber-framed projection, and to the right is a staircase

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and a service bay. In the garden front are four timber-framed

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s with a central

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over which is a balcony. Each of the gables is decorated with different Cheshire patterns. The house is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II

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. Manley Knoll is situated adjacent to another small country house called Manley Wood, which was built in 2001 on the former site of Sunnybank Farm. The two sites used to be one, with a road leading between, but this road is now unusable.

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{{Reflist Country houses in Cheshire Houses completed in 1912 Arts and Crafts architecture in England Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire Grade II listed houses 1912 establishments in England

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