Building record 1658/2 - Butley Hall (The Manor House)

<1> Earwaker, J P, 1877-1880, East Cheshire Past & Present, Vol.II p.256-7 (Book). SCH1080.

Butley Hall, now a large roomy house, situated at one end of the village of Prestbury. In 1574 it is owned by John Davenport and he dies in possession of a "fourth part of the moiety of a messuage in Butley, called the Hall of Butley, and the lands thereto belonging". It is not improbable that this small estate had been purchased from the heirs of the Piggot's in the latter half of the sixteenth century (see CHER 1658/1). In 1625 "a messuage called the Hall of Butley" was sold to John Hobson of Over Alderley. In 1735 it is inhabited by Charles Legh and in 1755 by Robert Watts. From 1777-91 it was the residence of the Downes of Shrigley. In the early nineteenth century it was the residence of the Rev. J Rowlls Browne, the vicar of Prestbury, prior to it's sale in 1861 to WC Brocklehurst Esq, the MP for Macclesfield.

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58374 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly the vicarage, now a house: dated 1708 with later nineteenth century extensions and alterations. Pebble dashed walls, Kerridge stone-slate roof, four pebble dashed chimneys. Originally rectangular in plan, now L-shaped. Two storeys over basement, symmetrical four bay front. Band at first floor. Windows are recessed four-pane sashes in simple narrow stone surrounds. Has a central triangular pediment, above datestone reading WF (for William Foxlowe) 1708. Door in left side in later nineteenth century wing and is approached by a flight of steps with wooden balusters.