Green Mount is a beautiful early 20thC country house, double fronted, detached, built on high ground alongside Grimshaw Lane when there were no other houses nearby. It has since become surrounded by more modern houses, mostly post-WWII, in moderate sized estates, one each side of the road.
Census
1910: Kelly’s Directory lists Charles Blunt as living at Green Mount. He had previously lived at Hollin Old Hall in the 1891 and 1901 census.
1911: Charles Blunt a solicitor from Wigston Magna in Leicester, aged fifty years, was still living at Green Mount. His wife Annie aged fifty six years and from Aston in Warwickshire also lived there along with their six mainly adult children. Their ages ranged from fourteen to twenty nine years and their names were Francis (a law student), Dorothea, Irenna, Hilda, Herbert, and Marion. The last three were born in Bollington, the others were born in Aston. They also had three more sons living in Canada. And apparently two more children had died at some point.
1914, 1923 and 1934 editions of Kelly’s Directory list William John Patterson as living at Green Mount, and also William Wetton in 1934.
1950’s / 1960’s Percy Whetton or Wetton and his family lived at Green Mount. They also owned the Stone Yard where Baileys Business park is now, off Grimshaw Lane. They also owned at least one of the Kerridge quarries.
The current owners have lived at Green Mount for 45 years as of 2019.
Acknowledgements
Our thanks go to Linda Stewart who has researched census information to present an interesting history of the house’s residents.