Chartered surveyors in Cheshire

Salt, not coal, is the ground story in much of Cheshire: only the Warrington corner touches the Lancashire Coalfield, while the Weaver valley around Northwich has its own history of salt working and brine pumping, so where a coal search is rarely needed a brine search sometimes is, and we say so whenever the address calls for one. It is our second-busiest county, with more than 750 reports issued since 2023, and the work reaches further across its towns than anywhere else we cover, fifteen of the seventeen with pages here. The stock leans later than the county’s period image suggests: homes built since 2000 are the largest era, the post-war and late-century estates follow close behind, and the Edwardian layer is the thinnest of all. That balance keeps warranties, alterations and completion paperwork in front of us at least as often as damp and decay. The Weaver and the Dane are the county’s own rivers, the Mersey runs along its northern edge, and Warrington’s 26 flood areas are the most of any Cheshire town, so the water questions are never skipped.

Chris Bloor MRICS · CJ Bloor Property Consultants