The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a 1909 rectory, later converted into a nursing home. It was designed by Robert Beaumont and then into a residential home in 1995. The building is constructed of red brick laid in stretcher bond, with a machine tile roof.

The exterior features an English bond brick plinth supporting full-height cavity walls. The building is two storeys high, with an irregular arrangement of windows. The east front has a central section raised into two gables with segmental tops. The ground floor of this section has three three-light timber casements with leaded glazing, separated by timber inserts imitating plasterwork. A continuous moulded timber cornice runs above the windows. The first floor has similar fenestration, grouped as a two-light, three-light, single-light and three-light casements, also with timber strapwork panels between each. An open loggia porch, consisting of three segmental arches supported on square timber posts, is to the left of the elevation. A glazed bay window to the right serves as the entrance lobby, accessible through a two-panelled door. A single two-light timber casement is located to the right of the elevation. The roof is hipped, with two stacks on the front roof slope. The rear (west) elevation has two segmental gables set slightly right of centre. The ground floor features two single-storey canted bay windows fitted with timber casements with leaded glazing, linked by a semi-circular loggia on two square timber posts, opening through narrow half-glazed doors into the bay windows. A three-light casement is to the left of the elevation, and a four-light leaded casement is on the first floor above. Two five-light leaded casements are above the bay windows, separated by timber strapwork panels imitating plasterwork. A stack rises from the roof slope to the left of centre. The south return has a partly external stack bearing a date plaque: BUILT AD 1909.

The interior drawing room, in the southwest corner, features a timber chimneypiece with fluted engaged columns supporting a mantel shelf above a frieze of four decorated panels separated by small banded columns. An oval mirror is set into the overmantel, flanked by open aedicules on columns and a serpentine top cresting. Double three-panelled folding doors lead into the dining room, which has a plain bolection-moulded timber chimneypiece. A closed string staircase has twisted balusters, moulded handrails on square newels with fluted decoration. The house is notable as an early example of cavity wall construction.