St Johns Rectory, with Front Garden Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1972. Residential. 8 related planning applications.
St Johns Rectory, with Front Garden Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- floating-quoin-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1972
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- St Johns Rectory, with Front Garden Wall and Railings, 1, Vicars Lane, CH1 1QX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 409 662
- Coordinates
- 53.19041, -2.88479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's Rectory, built in 1892, is a parsonage house likely designed by TM Lockwood at the expense of the first Duke of Westminster. The building features stone-dressed brick with blue diapering and has a double-depth red-brown tile roof.
The exterior consists of two storeys and two bays. On the left, a recessed wing has three stone steps leading to a door with two large panels and two smaller ones. The front showcases a square two-storey bay window with Ionic corner pilasters on each storey. The ground floor includes a three-light mullioned and transomed window with patterned leads for the upper lights, with the central light being round-arched. The west bay features two cross-windows with leaded upper lights. There is a moulded band at the first floor, with a four-light mullioned and transomed casement in the bay window and a three-light mullioned window to the right, all adorned with diapering. Above the bay window, a shaped gable has a string-course that rises above a two-light attic window, topped with coping, volutes, and a finial.
The right side facing Love Street has a projecting stone-dressed chimney, a moulded string, and a leaded cross-casement window on the first floor, along with diapering and two shaped gables. The rear features a diapered upper storey and a leaded cross-window for the stair. The left side has a pair of cross-windows on the first floor, diapering, and a shaped gable with three ball finials.
Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted to retain most original features. The property also includes a garden wall made of stone-banded brick with moulded coping that curves down to panels with wrought-iron railings between piers.
Local climate
St Johns Rectory, with Front Garden Wall and Railings receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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