The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a private house, dating from the early 18th century and heightened in the late 18th century. It was built for Merton College, which were the lay rectors of Ponteland. The building is constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond with a stone plinth and features a Welsh slate roof. It stands two storeys high with attics and has seven bays, with the left two bays added shortly after the main structure.

The entrance, located in the fifth bay, consists of a two-leaf, six-panel door with an overlight and a semicircular hood. The windows are 12-pane sashes set in shallow reveals with flat arches, and there is a brick band at the first floor level. The gabled roof has flat coping, a stack at the right end, and three segment-headed dormer windows.

At the rear, there is a two-storey lean-to with irregular openings that include 12-pane sashes, Yorkshire sashes, and 16-pane sashes.

Inside, the property features a late 18th-century staircase with stick balusters. There are two early 18th-century panelled rooms, one of which is in the added two-bay left section. Both rooms have two-panelled doors and wood cornices. One room includes a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround and a round-headed niche with shaped shelves.