The house was constructed as a vicarage during the mid 1850s, after the incumbent, Rev Robert Eustace, raised the £1,585 needed for its construction on an acre of land donated by Cecil Fane. A red brick building with enough ground for a flower and vegetable garden and an orchard, it was occupied by Eustace’s curate John Escreet for most of Eustace’s long incumbency (Eustace had a family home in Great Sampford). However, when both Eustace and Escreet retired in 1905, the latter was obliged to move to Firs House so that the new Vicar, Rev Edward Roberts, could move in.
