West Heath detectives

Since post of 26 Oct about The Quinta House now demolished from Sandbach Rd Congleton, I have been asking my local history chums about the area. The house was built 1890/91 and called 'Highfield Lodge', then from 1902 -1914 the wealthy Miss Eleanor Faulder lived there and it was called 'The Quinta'. It was this lady who married the Rector of Swettenham and had the house built of the same name at Swettenham, now occupied by Sir Bernard Lovell.


I remember in the late 1960's the only shop in West Heath was called The Lodge, a general store located at the corner of Sandbach Rd and Heath Rd. This was a flat-roofed building which became Lennon's wine shop until the roof became unsafe and it was demolished to make way for 2 bungalows.

In Congleton library there is a map of 1911 (OS 6'' - F8/7) showing a previous lodge on this land in the same location. Also in the middle of what is now Heath Rd another building called 'West Heath House'. A map of 1938 revealed that these 2 buildings had disappeared to make way for Heath rd and Blythe Ave.

I now wonder who lived in West Heath House? Perhaps Mr Solly of Mill fame as the other road in this area is of this name.

There is a splendid book on Mills of Congleton by Mr Lyndon Murgatroyd entitled
' Mill Walks and Industrial Yarns'