Former Rectory And Garden Railing

The former Rectory, later a social club and now offices, was built around 1750. It is constructed of red-brown brick in a Flemish bond to the front, with a grey slate roof. The building is three storeys high with five windows to the front. It has a painted stone plinth with a moulded cap, rusticated quoins, and a five-panel door with looped criss-cross glazing bars, set within a painted stone Gibbs surround incorporating a pulvinated frieze and pediment. There are simple sill bands. The ground floor has two flush 12-pane sashes either side of the doorway. The first floor has a sill band and five flush 12-pane sashes. The second floor has five shorter 9-pane sashes, all with rusticated wedge lintels and projecting keystones. A modillion cornice sits above, topped by a 10-course brick parapet with a simple painted stone cornice. An attic dormer is located centrally behind the parapet, and there are flush chimneys on stone-coped gables. The left end of the building has one flush sash per storey: 12 panes to the ground and first floors, and 6 panes to the second. The rear elevation features a replaced 6-panel door, a flush 12-pane sash, and a similar opening which has been blocked, to each side of the door. The first floor has a stair window of 6 panes above 12 panes, a blocked opening, and a flush 12-pane sash to each side. The second floor has a flush 6-pane sash and a flush 9-pane sash.

The entrance hall retains a replaced inner door, an original dado rail, and a modillion cornice. It includes doors with 6 fielded panels, and a round archway with fluted pilasters. The front left room has a panelled dado, a timber fire surround, panelled embrasures, and possibly a later cornice. The front right room has panelled embrasures. The back left room retains part of a dado rail, a corner fireplace with a carved overmantel, and a panelled embrasure. The open-well staircase has carved brackets, a curtail step with a rose on a ring of balusters, three column-on-vase balusters per step, drop-newels at the landings, a dado rail on panelled pilasters, and a swept rail, likely of oak. The front room on the first floor, occupying the central and left bays, has panelled embrasures, a fire surround with an eared architrave, a swag frieze, and a dentil cornice, as well as a good ceiling cornice. The front right room has a panelled embrasure. The rear of the building has been altered and includes a simple 18th-century fireplace in the left-hand room. Features have largely been removed from the second floor. A simple iron garden rail sits upon a stone plinth.