The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a building that originated as a rectory in the 14th century, and has been significantly altered in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is now used as a house. The building is constructed of large blocks of coursed squared sandstone, with sections in red brick. It has a plain tile roof with stone coped gables and plain kneelers. There are brick ridge and gable end stacks. The layout is L-shaped, with a double-fronted west elevation. The central doorway has a stone lintel and a shallow curved hood, with a plank door flanked by three-light 19th-century casement windows under wedge lintels. Above, there are two similar windows with flat arches, either side of a narrower, taller central window. Inside, there are chamfered beams and one fireplace with a stone lintel on carved brackets. A blocked two-light 17th-century chamfered mullion window is contained within an internal upper wall. In the roof space, within the gable end facing the church, there is reputedly the jamb and hoodmould with head stops of a 14th-century window, dating from a time when the rectory belonged to Dale Abbey.