Prestbury House Hotel

Prestbury House Hotel is a large house, originally built around 1700 by the Capel family, and now operating as a hotel. It was altered and extended in the early to mid-19th century. The main body of the house is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone, now largely pebble-dashed, with exposed quoins. It has a slate roof with ashlar stacks. A later extension to the left is of coursed squared and dressed limestone and brick, also with a slate roof. The building has a rectangular plan, with further extensions at the rear and to the left.

The front facade is symmetrical, with three stories and five windows. It features twelve-pane sashes to the ground and first floors, a moulded string course above the ground-floor windows, and six-pane sashes to the second floor. All windows are set within moulded architraves, with a keystone over the central window. The central entrance has a 19th-century six-panel door, the upper four panels being fielded, and a large hall light with marginal glazing bars above.

The left-hand return has a double early plank door within a flat-chamfered surround and a small two-light stone-mullioned casement immediately above it, with a stopped hood continued to the left to a twelve-pane sash in a moulded architrave with a keystone. There are also three stone-mullioned cross windows and three six-pane sashes within moulded surrounds to the second floor. An early lead downpipe with a segmental rainwater head is also present. The right-hand return of the main body features twelve and six-pane sashes. A two-storey bow window, lit by twelve-pane sashes, is part of the extension at the rear.

The main body has a hipped roof with a flat central section and off-the-ridge stacks. Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase with three stick balusters per tread, a wreathed handrail, and decorative brackets with foliate carving to each riser. Reused 17th-century panelling with a fluted frieze is found on the ground floor, and similar, possibly original panelling is in an upstairs room. A 19th-century marble fireplace with a frieze decorated with fruit and flowers is in the bow-windowed ground-floor extension.