The Rectory

The Rectory is an early 17th-century house, remodelled around 1812 with mid-19th century alterations and additions. Originally used as a rectory, it is now a hotel. The house is constructed from brick, some handmade, stuccoed to the front, with slate roofs of heavy graduated slates, parapets, urn finials to the front gable ends, and plain tiled roofs to the rear of the main part and additions. A brick ridge stack is present on the west wing, and an external brick chimney on the east side elevation.

The building has an H-shaped plan. It has two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, with a chamfered plinth and a dentilated eaves cornice to the sides and rear. The south front has a 1:1:1 bay arrangement with projecting wings, rusticated end quoins, and round-headed windows with moulded architraves, keyblocks, fluted frames, and intersecting traceried glazing bars. The central recessed part has a gable and a first-floor window above a main entrance. The entrance features an open pediment, engaged Doric columns, and a round-headed doorway with a half-glazed door and traceried glazing. A gryphon finial sits at the apex of the central gable.

Internally, some 17th-century wall framing is visible in the east wing. The roof contains much reused timber from the 17th century, including probable ovolo mullions. A first-floor room in the front of the west wing has a barrel roof and acanthus mouldings on the door and window architraves. A dog-leg staircase with slender turned balusters is located to the rear of the central part. A 17th-century timber-framed wing adjoins the rear of the west wing. This wing has two framed bays aligned east/west with a single-bay cross-wing at the east end, adjoining the rear of the main west wing; it has two levels and three panels from sill to wall-plate, with long straight braces in the lower corners and collar and tie-beam trusses with struts. The south elevation of this wing has two circular windows with radiating glazing bars at ground floor level, and a central gable with a similar circular window. A central octagonal louvred lantern with a clockface, domical roof, and weathervane is on the roof ridge. 19th-century additions are located to the rear of the east wing.