The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a former rectory that has been converted into a house. It likely dates from the late 16th century or 17th century and was remodeled around 1767, with later additions and alterations primarily from the mid-19th century. The building is timber framed but now encased in uncoursed limestone rubble, with red brick dressings. The roofs are covered with machine tiles and slate. The layout consists of a hall and a cross-wing, which has been extended and altered. The structure is two storeys high, with the hall probably comprising two and a half framed bays and a flush cross-wing of one bay. All the windows are mid-19th century casements with cambered heads. The cross-wing features a one-window range (the upper window is now blocked) and another window to the right of the entrance. The entrance has a bracketed gabled hood over a six-panel mid-19th century door, with the upper panels now glazed, and a further rectangular casement above it. There is an external red brick stack against the rear gable of the cross-wing, which has exposed timber framing, and another stack, rebuilt in mid-20th century brick, in the roof slope to the left, also at the rear. Additionally, there is a partly timber framed outshut under a catslide roof. This building served as the parsonage for the rector of the third portion of Pontesbury parish.