The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with alterations and additions from the late 18th and mid 19th centuries. It is situated in Sible-cum-Stibbington. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with freestone and ashlar dressings, and has collyweston stone slated roofs.

The main range is two storeys with attics, originally comprising three units with a cross passage to the east end. Further ranges extend to the east, including a one-storey and attic section, a single-storey kitchen and dairy, and a staircase wing to the north, with a mid-19th century porch to the rear entrance.

The south facade features parapet gables with end stacks and a ridge stack with four shafts, as well as an additional side stack to the north-east with two shafts of ashlar, a rebuilt brick stack to the kitchen range, and a plastered coved eaves cornice with a moulded stone string and chamfered plinth. It has ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed casement windows, some with two or three lights, a doorway with a panelled door, and a mid-19th century stone mullioned bay window. Dormer windows are present in the roof. The north facade includes blocked original window and doorway openings, reused 15th-century tracery, a 19th-century porch with a parapet gable supported on shaped corbels and surmounted by Gothic finials, and a panelled door.

Internally, there is a rebuilt early 17th-century staircase with a closed string and turned balusters. Notable features include four stone chimney pieces with mannerist detail and moulded stone cornices to the central ground and first floor rooms, two with overmantels containing sunk panelled pilasters. A sealed kitchen hearth incorporates an original baking oven. Inserted partitions are fitted with 18th-century panelled doors, and the attic doors retain 17th-century boarded panels. The roof features a staggered butt purlin structure.