The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house, originally a rectory, with a complex history spanning from the 12th to the 17th centuries. It began as an aisled hall dating to the 12th and 13th centuries, with an early mid-14th century west crosswing added later. Significant alterations occurred in the late 16th or early 17th century. The building is timber framed with clunch rubble and dressed clunch facing, covered by tiled roofs. It has a T-plan layout.

The aisled hall retains timber framing with stone outer walls, featuring a tiled roof with a 16th-17th century brick ridge stack. The gable of the original aisle roof is visible in the east wall of the crosswing. The south arcade is now integrated into a later south wall. Fenestration includes 19th-century sash windows with small panes. The north wall of the aisle was rebuilt in the 17th century, incorporating reused clunch rubble. The west crosswing is constructed of clunch rubble, dressed clunch, and fieldstones, with timber framing to the south end resulting from a shortening of the crosswing and rebuilding of the end wall. The crosswing has tiled roofs and projecting side stacks of clunch rubble with rebuilt upper courses in 16th-17th century brick. The west wall of the crosswing retains four original window openings, mostly rebuilt and altered, except for a single light at the south end with a two-centred arch of two chamfered orders with a trefoiled head. A garderobe and newel staircase, partially rebuilt, are located at the north end of the crosswing.

Inside, remnants of the timber framing of two original trusses of the aisled hall remain, including capitals of arcade posts, moulded tie beams, bracing, and principal rafters with notches for raking struts. The original roof was of crown-post or king-post type and is blackened. The crosswing contains part of a doorway in a two-centred arch leading from the north aisle to the staircase. The clunch newel staircase has been partly rebuilt, and includes a reset medieval window with two cusped lights divided by a transom. The crosswing's roof is post-medieval, with the exception of one truss immediately north of the chimney, which has a steeply cambered tie beam and an octagonal crown post with moulded capital, base stops, and four-way bracing—some braces to the collar purlin have been removed. Red paint is visible on some of the timbers. A late 16th-century clunch hearth with a depressed four-centred arch is in the aisled hall. Ovolo moulded mullions in two ground floor windows in the south wall of the crosswing date from the 17th century. The property was likely conveyed to Kings College, Cambridge, in 1457, and the 17th-century alterations may have been made by Rev. Fogge Newton (d.1612), Provost of Kings and Rector of Kingston.