Notable Buildings

The Old Rectory on Warrington Road. Built about 1812 and home to several generations of Vicars of Newchurch. Now a private residence, recently extended and refurbished.

The Pack Horse Inn. The oldest pub in Culcheth, dating back to the 18th century. Presumably named after the horses that were used to transport goods before the invention of lorries and vans and no doubt a place of refreshment for the men who were in charge of them.

The oldest house in Culcheth: Brookhouse Farm on Wigshaw Lane. A listed building dating back to 1744.

There are several old cottages on Wigshaw Lane including this one dated 1805.

The Independent Methodist Church on Common Lane probably built about 1840. Now a private residence.

The Methodist Church opened in 1966.

Wigshaw House. A listed building from the early 19th century.

The Millennium Garden, completed in 2001, is in the form of a giant sundial to illustrate the passage of time.

On a 1907 map this property on Common Lane is shown as High Lodge at the entrance to a path leading to Culcheth Hall so I guess it was part of the estate of the lord of the manor.

The old school 1821 with the schoolmaster's house next to it. It is now the parish hall.

Culcheth High School. Opened in 2010 to replace the previous school buildings which were on Withington Avenue.

Claremont Farm, Robins Lane, probably 19th century.

Kenyon Hall, an early 19th century listed building. It is now Leigh Golf Club but it was once owned by a wealthy cotton manufacturer from Manchester called Sir Jabez Johnson Ferguson. In 1894 it became Kenyon Hall College, a private boarding school and the 1901 census records that it had 52 boys and 17 girls aged nine to seventeen. It ceased to operate as a school in the early 1920s when Leigh Golf Club took over.

The entrance to Kenyon Hall. The lodge and entrance gate pillars are both listed.

Adjacent to the entrance to Kenyon Hall are two cottages originally built for employees of Kenyon Hall. Later, one became the school laundry and the other used to be Kenyon post office.

Leigh Hall, probably 19th century, a large private house adjacent to the golf course.

These houses and large buildings were originally built in 1903 for the poor and orphan children of Salford funded by the Salford Board of Guardians. This was a 'model village' providing supervised housing, school, baths, workshops, recreation ground and farm land. The children would attend school until age 14 and receive practical training in workshops which included shoemaking, plumbing, baking, painting, joinery, gardening and farm work.