The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a circa 1750 rectory, now a private house, that was raised by a half storey and altered around 1810. It is constructed of coursed ironstone with a slate roof. The building is arranged over two and a half storeys and features five bays. A central 20th-century glazed door sits within a rusticated plastered doorframe, surmounted by a four-vaned Regency fanlight. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, each with plastered sills and lintels. The eaves feature a modillion cornice, below a gabled roof. Internal gable-end stacks are built of limestone. Interior features include an early 19th-century staircase with stick balusters and a ramped and wreathed handrail. The building is associated with Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823), inventor of the power loom in 1785, who served as rector here.