The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is an early 19th-century rectory, now a house, with earlier origins, later 19th-century bay windows, and 20th-century alterations including rebuilding to the rear. The building is constructed of yellow brick in Flemish bond, with a roof of locally-made “French” or “Scottish”-style clay tiles. It is rectangular in plan, originally featuring a two-room central entrance hall front with a study and kitchen range to the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high with a three-window range and symmetrical design, featuring single full-height canted bays to the left and right returns. A reeded panelled doorcase with a cornice and hood shelters a 20th-century door set within a panelled reveal, above a three-pane overlight. The ground floor has six-pane replacements sashes in flush wood architraves, set beneath cambered wedge lintels. The central first-floor sash is a four-pane design, flanked by six-pane sashes. Stepped eaves include a wooden eaves board. A hipped roof has two mid-roof stacks. The canted bay to the left return has steps leading to a French window set beneath an overlight with glazing bars, flanked by four-pane sashes in reveals. A dentilled brick band sits above the ground-floor windows, with a moulded sandstone sill band running along the first floor, beneath a central six-pane first-floor sash flanked by four-pane sashes. A wooden eaves board is present here too. A similar bay window is on the right return, distinguished by a single brick band above the ground-floor windows. The right return incorporates earlier red-brown brickwork and straight joints, likely remnants of an earlier rectory house.

The interior entrance hall has a coved ceiling cornice and a foliate ceiling roundel. The staircase hall features an open-well staircase with a wreathed and swept handrail, rib-moulded stick balusters, and a columned newel. The ceiling has a coved cornice and a ribbed frieze with paterae. Six-panel doors are set within ribbed architraves, accompanied by panelled window shutters and reveals.