Building record 5331 - Tall Chimneys, Vicarage Lane, Bletchton

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

This large Gothic Revival house was formerly the vicarage for St. Mary’s Church, Sandbach. The brickwork is red, with very extensive blue diapering, and stone sills, lintels, corbelling, parapets and other details. The timber windows are original. A stone escutcheon on the porch bears the date 1852. The chimneys for which the house is named are of varied, highly ornate design.

<2> Cheshire Gardens Trust, 2011 onwards, Research and Recording Report (Report). SCH6655.

Research by the Cheshire Gardens trust found that The Vicarage was built in 1846-48 to the design of the architect George Gilbert Scott for the Vicar of St. Mary’s Church, Sandbach.
Surrounded by a designed landscape of c.50 acres, it remained a vicarage until 1941.