The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The building consists of four bays aligned north-south, featuring external chimney stacks to the north and west, and an eastern aspect. There is a rear wing extending from the southern bay, which includes an internal chimney stack at the junction and an external chimney stack at the end. A stair tower is located in the angle, and there is a rear extension from the northern bay, built in the 18th century, resulting in an irregular half-H plan.

The house is two storeys high, with a half-glazed door set in a tiled gabled porch from the 19th century. The front elevation has three double-hung sash windows with 15 lights, dating from the early 19th century, and one 19th-century casement window with six lights. On the first floor, there are four similar windows and one early 18th-century sash window with 18 lights. A plain plaster band runs along the southern part of the front elevation and continues around the southern elevation. The roof is hipped.

Inside, the property features richly roll-moulded beams and joists from the early 16th century, along with other beams that are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. An internal chimney stack has been removed from the second bay from the southern end, leaving plain joists in that bay. The 18th-century staircase is of high quality, with fluted posts topped with carved Corinthian capitals and twisted balusters. The ground floor rooms in the southern part of the house have 18th-century pine panelling and folding internal shutters. A partition on the ground floor between the northern bay and the next bay has been stripped, revealing a wide doorway with a four-centred head, which is original.