The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house, now divided into two dwellings, that was originally built in the 18th century and significantly enlarged in 1846 with a further addition in 1889. The construction is of coursed limestone rubble and white brick, with ashlar dressings. The roof is slate-covered, with ashlar coped gables, kneelers, and gable finials. The building features various ashlar chimneys with diamond stacks. Other details include ashlar corbelled eaves, a chamfered ashlar plinth, and ashlar quoins. The house is two storeys high with attics.

The east front, which serves as the entrance front, has three bays. A projecting ashlar porch fronts the central doorway, accessed by two flights of three steps. The porch has solid ashlar side walls with ashlar coping, terminating in octagonal piers with ashlar tops and bases. A chamfered arched opening with a crow-stepped gable above, incorporating coping, leads to a four-panelled inner door with side lights and an overlight within a four-centred arch. To either side of the doorway are single, two-light chamfered mullion windows with Tudor hoods. Above these windows is a single light mullion window, flanked by single, two-light glazing bar sashes. Above that is a narrow lancet window to the left and, to the right, a wing added in 1889 with similar window arrangements.

The south front has three bays, with a pair of margin-light glazed doors in a chamfered surround to the left, and two, two-light margin-light sashes in chamfered mullion surrounds to the right, all under Tudor hoods. Above are three, two-light glazing bar sashes in chamfered mullion surrounds, with a narrow lancet window to the left.

The west front has a tall, three-bay block to the south, featuring three pairs of margin-light glazed double doors in chamfered surrounds under Tudor hoods. Above are three, two-light glazing bar sashes in chamfered mullion surrounds, with small gables decorated with shields above the outer windows. Set back to the north is an earlier, lower block of two bays, with a taller single-bay cross wing beyond. A central three-light casement window is flanked by two-light casements. Above is a central pair of glazed double doors, flanked by single two-light casements. Above that, in the cross wing gable, is a single-light casement.