The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house dating from 1763, with earlier fabric incorporated. It is timber-framed and rendered, with painted brick detailing, and has plain tile roofs, the front range being hipped with an off-centre ridgeline stack, and two stacks to the rear. The building is arranged in an L-shape.

The symmetrical front elevation has two storeys with attics and a five-window range. Canted bay windows with flat roofs are situated at each end, featuring sash windows; those on the first floor have margin glazing, and those on the ground floor have twelve panes. The centre of the front features a three-window arrangement on the first floor and matching windows on the ground floor, flanking a pedimented porch with Tuscan columns and respond pilasters, and white boarded infilling with hexagonal subdivided windows. Behind the porch is a Gibbs surround with a keystone, and a door consisting of nine small panels above a diagonally boarded panel. The east flank has painted brickwork, a 20th-century small-paned sash window, and a doorcase with a pediment, inverted volutes, and a door with nine panels over a diagonally boarded panel. The long west elevation includes an external stack and a hipped dormer with a two-light casement. The first floor has one nine-pane sash, two twelve-pane sashes, one sixteen-pane sash, a six-light casement, and one six-pane sash, all with moulded surrounds. The ground floor showcases two twenty-pane sashes, one twelve-pane sash, and a doorcase with a hood and consoles, leading to a door with six small panels over a diagonal boarded panel. The rear elevation includes a return gable to the north-east, featuring a two-light casement in the attic, two coupled eight-pane sashes on the first floor, and two coupled twelve-pane sash windows on the ground floor. A parallel rear range has a hipped tile gambrel roof with two hipped dormers, each containing a two-light small-paned casement. The rear wall exhibits a large Venetian window with small panes to the staircase, a six-pane fixed window, and two 20th-century windows. The rear of the western wing displays a complex arrangement of four lean-to structures, one of which is jettied out from the first floor, and two constructed of red brick. A large stack is present on this rear elevation, alongside a large T-plan stack at the west end of the gambrel ridge.

The interior of the east wing reveals remnants of timber-framing, including a moulded spine beam. The main open-well staircase has shaped tread ends, column-on-vase balusters, and a wreathed handrail. A rear stair arch on the first-floor landing is moulded, with capitals on pilasters and a keystone. The west wing contains enclosed remnants of pargeted gablework displaying the date 1763. A first-floor room features a bolection-moulded fireplace with a mantel shelf, while a ground-floor fireplace incorporates reused 16th-century moulded floor joists as jambs.