The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a vicarage, now a house, built in 1846-1847 by George Townsend Andrews of York. It is constructed of squared limestone with a slate roof and brick stacks, and has a T-shaped layout with a central entrance hall and a rear service wing. The west front features two storeys and three symmetrical bays. There are two stone steps leading to a wide recessed panelled door, which is topped by an overlight with margin lights. The door is framed by a Doric doorcase with pairs of engaged pilasters supporting a plain entablature, cornice, and hood. The windows are 12-pane sashes with beaded frames, projecting stone cills, and cambered stone arches; the first-floor windows are slightly smaller, and the right window on the ground floor has been replaced around 1980. The building has a moulded and deeply-coved cornice and a hipped roof, with a mid-roof stack on the right. The right return has three bays, with a ground floor canted bay on the left that features full-height unequal sashes with glazing bars, cambered stone arches, a coved cornice, and a hipped roof. Inside, the stairhall includes an open-well staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail and turned balusters, a round-headed stair window, and a moulded cornice. The ground floor front rooms also have moulded cornices.