The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a timber-framed building, originally dating from the 14th or 15th century, with substantial alterations in the late 16th century, further additions around 1820, and subsequent later changes. The original structure comprised an open hall of two framed bays, to which a two-bay range was added at a right angle to the south, with a projecting full-height porch in the angle between. A two-storey range parallel to the rear and a further two-bay range to the north were added around 1820.

The earlier part of the building has a plain tile roof, while the 1820 addition has a red brick facade with a slate hipped roof. The east gable of the medieval range displays close studding with a long curving tension brace and a moulded bressumer. The 16th-century section is also close-studded on the ground floor with a middle rail and long straight tension braces, a moulded bressumer to the first floor, and above this, four square panels to the wall-plate, again with straight tension braces. The porch and south gable have jettied attics with carved corner brackets; the south gable end was rough-cast to the first floor and attic during a 1985 survey.

The fenestration is irregular, with glazing bar sash windows on each floor to the left of the porch. The porch itself has a late 20th-century casement window on the ground floor, a fixed-light window above, and a sliding sash to the attic. Late 20th-century casements feature on the first floor and attic of the hall range, alongside fixed-light windows framing a contemporary blocked doorway. The circa 1820 addition features glazing bar sashes, with the upper right section being blind and painted to resemble timber framing. A prominent integral red brick stack is located on the back wall of the 16th-century section, with a cross-shaped shaft rebuilt in late 19th-century brown brick.

Inside, the ground-floor back room of the hall range has a cross-beamed ceiling with deep moulding. Other rooms feature chamfered ceiling beams with straight-cut chamfer stops. Original features include nail-studded plank and muntin doors on the ground floor, and several early 19th-century cast-iron grates, including one with an hour-glass shape. The hall range has double-purlin roofs with straight windbraces, cambered tie and collar beams, and jowled wall posts.