The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a vicarage, now a house, built in 1853 by William Reid Carson of Leeds. It is constructed of yellow brick in Flemish bond, with red brick and ashlar dressings, and has a pantile roof. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the building has an L-shaped plan with a double-depth main section and a rear wing. The garden fronts face west and south, while the entrance is on the north side.

The west front is asymmetrical and balanced, featuring two storeys with a gabled section to the left and three bays. It has a plinth with a red brick base and a stringcourse, along with a central segmental-arched sliding sash window to the cellar. To the right, there is a square bay window with a pair of flat-headed cellar openings that have iron grilles, as well as a pair of sashes with chamfered ashlar lintels and cills, topped with a coped parapet. The left side has a projecting canted bay window with three similar sashes and ashlar dressings. A central stair window features a pair of round-headed sashes set in a wide round-arched reveal, adorned with red brick ornament in the tympanum. The first floor has two red brick stringcourses, with a pair of first-floor sashes to the left under segmental arches, and a similar attic sash above, also featuring red brick stringcourses and a cross motif in the gable. The roof is double-span with a central gabled dormer, and the stone-coped gables have shaped kneelers. There is a large partly-projecting end stack to the left and an axial stack to the right, both with stepped and cogged brick cornices, red brick stringcourses, and tapered square pots.

The right return has similar details, including canted and square ground floor bay windows and twin main gables with a gable set back between. The left return features a flight of six stone steps leading to a central round-arched opening that leads to an internal porch. This porch has a part-glazed Gothic-style door flanked by round-headed recessed sashes with chamfered ashlar cills. The garden fronts display similar segmental-arched sashes and details.

Inside, original features include a staircase with turned balusters, wood and marble chimneypieces, moulded plaster cornices, and panelled window shutters and doors in architraves.