The Rectory

The Rectory is a parsonage house built shortly after 1700 and altered in the early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a hipped tile roof with chimney stacks at the hips. The building has two storeys and an attic, which is illuminated by three gabled dormers. It has a wooden modillioned cornice, a stone string over the ground floor, and an ashlar plinth with chamfered stone quoins. The façade consists of seven bays, with a central three-bay section that breaks forward and is quoined. The windows are flush framed 18-pane sashes with flush ashlar quoined surrounds, set under wedge lintels with keystones. The central entrance features a bolection moulded architrave beneath a shell canopy supported by scroll brackets, with a marginally glazed over-light and a two-leaf six-panelled door approached by steps flanked by low stone walls. One window on the extreme right of the ground floor has been bricked up internally. Inside, the staircase was moved to a subsidiary position in the early 19th century, and there is early 18th century rectangular panelling in the room to the right of the entrance hall, which is now used as a study. This building is a well-preserved example of an early 18th century parsonage. A faculty for reconstruction was granted on 20 August 1700.