North Rode Manor

[2] The authors of the Buildings of England series describe it a "sprawling white house in Regency Gothic".

[3] The present porch replaces the one originally on the house that has been moved and is now a free-standing folly in the garden.

He inherited the North Rode Estate in 1811 from his father Michael Daintry (1732–1811) who had bought it a year earlier.

In 1829 he sold his land in Leek and it may have been this money which helped to finance the building of the Manor in North Rode some years later.

Reverend John Daintry was the rector for several towns in England but after his inheritance in 1848 he became the vicar for North Rode for the next twenty years.

[10] The couple had no children so when John died in 1869 his only surviving younger brother George Smith Daintry (1811–1881) inherited the estate.

He therefore sought to make his own way in the world and in 1842 went with his wife Mary Ann (nee Hodge) and children to Cobourg in Canada.

He had remained in Canada for most of his life working as a surveyor and had married a Canadian wife Sarah Louisa Beatty.

In 1902 he married Dorothy Ridgeway who was the daughter of John Ridgway of Sutton Hall, Cheshire.

He was also a director of the London and North Western Railway and the chairman of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.

George Percival Daintry ran the North Rode Estate until 1923 and then decided to sell the whole property.