Prestbury Vicarage

Vicarage. 1889, with minor late C20 alterations. Red brick with tile hanging and timber framing, gable and ridge chimneys and hipped roof with a plain tile roof covering. Restrained Arts and Crafts style.

When the Rev Reginald Edmund Broughton was appointed to Prestbury in 1889, the vicarage he moved into was the large building now called The Manor House on the opposite side of the road to the church. For reasons unknown this building was unsatisfactory, and Broughton commissioned Newton to build a new vicarage standing in its own grounds a short distance away. It is a large building in brick with copious tile hanging and timber framing but is shielded from public view by a screen of trees and bushes. A drawing of it was made by T Raffles Davison and is now in the RIBA picture library. Recently the building was sold to a private owner, and the current vicar lives in more modest premises nearby.[RF]

Reference           British Architect 18 January 1895