Great Budworth

St Mary and All Saints Church

St Mary and All Saints' Church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[18] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.[19] Clifton-Taylor includes it in his list of best English parish churches.[20] Richards describes it as "one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture remaining in Cheshire".[21] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner considered it to be "one of the most satisfactory Perpendicular churches in Cheshire".[22] In the north chapel is a memorial to Sir Peter Leicester, the 17th-century historian, and in the Warburton Chapel is the alabaster effigy of Sir John Warburton who died in 1575.[21] In the north chapel is an organ designed by Samuel Renn, installed in 1839.

Goldmine House and its attached cottage (Rose Cottage), designated as a Grade II listed building,[23] were built in 1870 for Rowland Egerton-Warburton of Arley Hall and were designed by the Chester architect John Douglas.[24] Built with brown brick with some timber framing, and clay tile roofs the house faces west. It is a double storied building with two gabled bays. The cottage is simple in form with a dormer and blue brick diapering.[23]

Dene Cottages, a Grade II listed pair of cottages, were built in 1867–68, again for Rowland Egerton-Warburton and by Douglas.[25] The lower storeys are constructed in brown brick. The upper storeys are timber-framed with plaster panels. The roof is in clay tiles. The plaster panels are pargetted with floral motifs.[26]

Belmont Hall in this parish was built by J. H. Smith-Barry Esq., who deposited in it his valuable collection of pictures and statues, afterwards removed to Marbury. Smith-Barry sold it to Henry Clarke.[6] Built in 1755 and designed by James Gibbs, it is a Grade I listed building.[27] As of 2020 it is occupied by Cransley School.[28]

The George and Dragon pub

The George and Dragon pub, another Grade II listed building,[29] was initially built as a simple three-bay Georgian inn. In 1875, John Douglas was commissioned to restore it by Egerton-Warburton. He added tall rubbed chimneys, mullioned windows and a steep pyramidal turret.[30] The double-storied inn has bays built in brick with a roughcast rendering on the upper storey. It has clay tiled covered hipped roofs. Its other architectural features comprise a projecting two-storey porch with oak post-and-rail fence inscribed with a number of sayings on either side, lateral bay with four-light mullioned window in the lower storey and a three-light mullioned window in the upper storey, a tall rubbed brick chimneystack, and the inn sign located diagonally from the right corner.[29][30] The inn continues to function as a public house and restaurant.[31] In 2015 the pub was used as a location in the video game Contradiction by developer Baggy Cat.[32]

54–57 High Street is a row of four Grade II listed[33] dwellings in the High Street, built in the early 18th century.[33] They were refaced and partly rebuilt for Rowland Egerton-Warburton of Arley Hall by John Douglas in 1870 or 1875.[29][34] The two outer buildings are houses and the two central buildings are cottages. They are built in brown brick with clay tile roofs, and have two storeys plus attics. Each building has a gable, those on the outer buildings larger than those on the inner, all decorated with brick and plaster.[33]