The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a late 17th-century rectory, later altered and used as a house. It is located in Grove Main Street. The building is constructed of brick, partly rendered, with pantile and slate roofs. It features an ashlar plinth and dressings, a first-floor band, coped gables with kneelers, and shaped gables. There are three gable and one side wall stack. The main rectangular block is two storeys plus garrets, three bays wide and seven bays deep, arranged in an "L" shape. A rear wing dates to the 17th century. The rear wing's central part has a 20th-century door flanked to the left by a French window, and alongside that, a blocked opening. To the right are two 20th-century casements, all with segmental heads. Above this, a blocked opening is present to the left, and four 20th-century casements are to the right, again with segmental heads. A small light is visible in the garret of the north gable. A rear outshut, raised in the 19th century, has a single casement on the ground floor and a Yorkshire sash and a small casement above. A 19th-century addition to the south has a gabled front with a central gabled porch flanked by single casements, and to the left, a triple plain sash window. To the right is a canted two-storey bay window with a triple plain sash. Above this, a mullioned and transomed casement sits centrally, flanked to the left by a triple sash and to the right by the bay window with triple and two single plain sashes. Above that is a single, chamfered, unglazed light. The gabled east front has, to the right, a square two-storey bay window with three plain sashes. Above this, a single casement is to the left, and a bay window with three plain sashes is to the right.