The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a large house, built in 1840 by Samuel Marshall of Hull. Later alterations were made to the roof. It is constructed of grey brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a stuccoed basement. The roof is covered in Welsh slate. The building is square in plan, with two main rooms on the front facing the entrance and the garden. It has two storeys and four bays on both the east and south fronts.

The basement is stuccoed and forms a deep plinth with a moulded top edge. The east front has an entrance in the second bay, a tripartite basement sash window on the right with glazing bars under a cambered arch, and a flight of six stone steps leading to a segmental-arched entrance. The entrance is framed by a moulded lintel and a six-pane overlight in a panelled soffit and reveal. A four-panelled door is flanked by three-pane sidelights. To the right of the entrance is a simple twelve-pane sash window, and a narrower, similar sash window in the fourth bay. A blind recessed window panel is located on the left. A band of brick runs along the first floor. The first floor features a pair of unequal nine-pane sash windows in the second and third bays, with blind panels on each side.

The left side of the front, which faces the garden, has unequal fifteen-pane ground-floor sash windows set at plinth level, a band of brick along the first floor, and similar nine-pane first-floor sash windows to those on the east front. A hipped roof is present. A pair of corniced roof stacks are visible. All windows and blind panels have projecting sills and cambered brick arches.

The rear, or north side, of the building, which is three stories high with a basement, features a pair of segmental-arched basement openings, one of which has been blocked, and sash windows with glazing bars under cambered arches.

Inside, original features include a main entrance vestibule with a half-glazed door and sidelights, an open-well staircase with a wreathed handrail, turned balusters, and profiled cheek pieces, plaster cornices in the halls and main rooms, and an ornate ceiling rose in the lower hall. A marble chimney-piece with decorated pilasters and foliate capitals is found in the southwest dining room (formerly a drawing room). The roof was originally double span with a central lantern, but has since been altered to include a flat central section. Architectural drawings of the building are held in the Lincolnshire Record Office.