The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a rectory built between 1841 and 1844 by Henry Goddard, featuring red brick in Flemish bond with stucco and ashlar dressings, and roofs made of Welsh slate and tile. The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay entrance front designed in the Tudor Revival style, with twin wings at the rear. It has a chamfered plinth and a central gabled porch that contains a recessed, part-glazed door framed by a Tudor-arched surround, complete with a hoodmould that has decorative stops and a coped gable above.

The flanking windows are set in shallow projections topped with gables, while the canted, one-storey bay windows feature sashes with a 1:2:1 light configuration, horizontal glazing bars, and corniced wooden surrounds on brick plinths. The first-floor windows match those below, consisting of three lights with projecting sills and bonded surrounds, and each gable has a blank shield. The shaped ashlar kneelers support a stuccoed parapet with copings. Above the porch, there is a two-light window with a hoodmould that has carved stops.

The building is topped with twin-flue end stacks that each have a plinth, band, and blue-brick top. On the right side, there is a late 19th-century canted bay with a French window, and above it, a three-light cast-iron Gothic window, along with a similar six-light window on the ground floor to the right in an altered opening. The rear wings feature ridge stacks similar to those at the front.

The interior has not been fully inspected, but it includes a paved stair-hall with an open-string staircase that has a square newel and a plain balustrade that sweeps around without a half-landing. There are six-panel doors within broad architraves, and a simple marble fireplace in the front-left room that has a tiled, cast-iron inset. A stop-chamfered beam in a room with a six-light Gothic window is of earlier origin.