Rectory Farmhouse

Rectory Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, with 20th-century alterations and additions. The house is timber framed, with the original frame in places being very substantial, mostly concealed by colourwashed roughcast render, although some of the ground floor is colourwashed brick. Applied timber framing is visible on the main block. The roofs are a mix of clay tiles and 20th-century tiles. The building has a complex plan, with the original two-storey and attic rectangular block likely representing the earliest phase. Later two-storied gables project from the south elevation, and there is a 20th-century addition to the rear. Most windows are 20th-century, two-light casements. The doors are also 20th-century; the one on the north elevation is under an added gabled porch. Inside the original two-storey and attic block, substantial timber framing is visible, featuring large, jowled main posts and mouldings to some of the beams. The attic of the southeast gable has a plaster ceiling with unusual graffiti apparently created in the 18th century by burning with a candle flame.