The Rectory

The Rectory is a building dating from around 1760, which has undergone significant external alterations in the late 19th century, and had its rear wing and attached buildings demolished in the mid-20th century. It features red-brown Flemish bond brickwork and a hipped grey slate roof. The structure stands three storeys tall and has five windows.

The front of the building includes a three-storey projecting canted bay with three windows, flanked by one window on each side. It has a sandstone plinth, a three-course plain band at the first floor, and coved plaster eaves, although the parapet has been removed. The lower side windows were originally Venetian, with the right one still surviving in its stone case. The other windows are recessed small-pane sashes, with one surviving in each oblique side of the central bay. The remaining windows are mullioned and transomed. The upper storey of the canted bay features early 20th-century pargeting, with inserted four-panel casements and a swept hexagonal spire topped with a tiny hipped dormer.

The two surviving sashes in the lower storey and all openings in the upper storey have shaped-keystone wedge lintels. There are two symmetrically placed ridge chimneys and a flush chimney on the left end wall. The right end wall has a small window inserted to the left of the door, inscribed "KWT 1883". All window openings, except for the mullioned and transomed insertion, have keystone wedge lintels, and projecting stone cills are present on all unaltered openings. The left (service) end has various windows, some dating from the 18th century.

Inside, the central front room on the third storey was re-ceiled in the early 20th century and features a brass plate on the door inscribed "Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, of excellent memory, was born in this upper chamber upon the 21st of April 1783 + R.I.P.". Bishop Heber is remembered for his work as a missionary and hymn-writer.