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A red-brick building with two storeys, five bays and a central triangular pediment

...that 9 Mill Street (pictured) in Nantwich dates from 1736, and has been a house, a bank, a political club and a restaurant?

...that Samuel Huggins' objections to the "so called restoration" of Chester Cathedral helped found the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings?

...that Holy Trinity Church, Northwich, was the largest of the three churches designed by Edmund Sharpe for the Weaver Navigation Trustees?

...that a part of the Parthenon Frieze currently at the British Museum used to be kept at Marbury Hall?

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