The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a private house, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed of handmade brick in an English garden wall bond (a pattern of five bricks long with one brick projection), with a renewed pantiled roof and brick chimney stacks. The house comprises a main block with a set-back wing to its right. Originally designed with a double-depth plan under a two-span roof, the outline of the roof valley is still visible on the gable ends.

The main block is two storeys high and five bays wide. The central entrance features a six-panel door and overlight, set behind a 20th-century gabled, glazed porch. Four-pane sash windows, with intermediate glazing bars removed, are set within elongated openings and are topped by rubbed-brick flat arches. A wood eaves cornice runs along the top of the building. The steeply-pitched roof has raised verges and corbelled-out brick kneelers. Tall chimney stacks, originally positioned along the ridge of each span, now rise halfway up the front and rear roof slopes; the front stacks are original, while the rear stacks have been rebuilt. The wing has a first-floor sash window and a steeply-pitched roof with a raised right verge. On the rear of the main block is a central round-arched stair window with radial glazing, flanked by first-floor twelve-pane sashes with thick glazing bars.

Inside, there are several two- and six-panel doors set within wooden architraves, along with three-panel internal window shutters. The cut-string dogleg staircase has two flights and a landing, featuring turned balusters with large knops near the base and a ramped, moulded handrail.

A late 20th-century glazed conservatory in front of the wing and a 20th-century lean-to addition to the rear are not considered to be of particular architectural interest.