Alfred Edward McCutcheon [also known as A.E. McCutcheon] was born in Bangor, Co. Down, Ireland in 1876. By 1901 he had moved to Manchester, England, where he initially worked as a joiner. By 1911 he was employed as clerk of works, and by the 1920s was established as an architect and civil engineer, and a partner, with A.N. Potter in the architectural firm McCutcheon & Potter. Four subsidy house in Flixton near Manchester designed by McCutcheon & Potter are discussed and illustrated in Modern Houses and Bungalows by Hugh B. Philpott (London: “Illustrated Carpenter and Builder”, 1930 p.6).
Most of McCutcheon and McCutcheon & Potter's commissions were residential, however, exceptions were the Bakery and Store on Moorside Road, Flixton, near Manchester (1929); a restaurant and café on Talbot Road in Davyhulme, Trafford, near Manchester (1929); and Davyhulme Park Golf Club in Trafford, near Manchester, designed in the Modernist style and built in 1936-37
McCutcheon's address was given as Raby Street, Moss Side, Manchester in 1901; 127 Raby Street, Moss Side in 1911; 4 Chorlton Street, Manchester in the 1920s; 2 Sandy Lane Stretford, near Manchester in 1936; 1180a Chester Road, Stretford, near Manchester in 1944; and 28 Sandy Lane Stretford, near Manchester in 1952. He died in Stretford on 20 October 1952.
Housing in Moorside Road, Flixton, Lancashire (1928); bakery and store in Moorside Road, Flixton, Lancashire (1929); restaurant and café in Talbot Road, Davyhulme, Lancashire (1929); and golf house, Davyhulme Park Golf Club in Flixton, Lancashire (1936-37).