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Sandbach Literary Institute, Sandbach

Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and built between 1857-8 in brick with brick patterning in a Gothic style by Samuel Faram of Wheelock at a cost of £2,500 of which £2,100 was contributed by local inhabitants. It is two stories with dormers and was sketched by Alfred Waterhouse in 1859.