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

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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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