The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house built in 1897 by T M Lockwood and Sons, funded by the 1st Duke of Westminster. It features red brick with blue diapering on a red sandstone plinth, and is dressed in yellow and red sandstone. The roof is made of small Westmorland slates, and it has stone-banded brick chimneys with octagonal attached flues. The building is two and a half storeys high with four bays on the garden front. The first, second, and fourth bays from the left have stone-capped gables designed in an Elizabethan style. The stone window surrounds include ovolo reveals, heads, transoms, and recessed mullions. There are labels above the second storey windows in the gables, and straight, moulded drips over the third storey windows, which still have leaded glazing. The entrance front features a three-storey projecting porch with a 12-light mullioned and transomed window for the stair. To the right, there is a one-storey kitchen wing that ends in a shaped gable and has a cupola with a louvred ventilator made of pine on the ridge. Inside, there is a pine open-well newel stair with three flights, heavy turned balusters, and a deep handrail, along with panelling beneath the string. The doors are six-panel with broken pediments in the hall. This building is a notable example of Lockwood's mature style for substantial parsonage houses.