The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house built in the early 19th century, designed in the Gothick style. It is constructed of red brick laid in Flemish bond and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main part of the house has a complex, approximately square plan and consists of two storeys and attics, with three internal stacks and a service wing set back to the left, which is also two storeys tall and features an end stack. There is a late 19th-century single-storey lean-to extension on the service wing, covered with a slate roof.

The main house has a three-window range of original sash windows, each with 16 lights, shallow segmental arches, plastered reveals, and crown glass. The central door features moulded stiles and a four-centred head, with a richly moulded doorway that includes jambs and an arch decorated with plaster motifs of a rose, portcullis, and foliage. This entrance is set within a buttressed and crenellated two-storey tower-porch, which has a moulded plaster string at the first-floor level and two chamfered loops on each side wall. The chimney stacks are grouped and octagonal.

The service wing has a 20th-century casement window in an original opening on the ground floor, another opening altered to a 20th-century glazed door with a side-light, and three original sash windows on the first floor, each with 3+6 lights and shallow segmental arches, plastered reveals, and crown glass. It features a plain chimney shaft.

On the rear elevation, there is one original sash window with 15 lights, two with 12 lights, and a tripartite sash with 5-15-5 lights on the ground floor. The first floor includes one tripartite sash with 3-9-3 lights, one sash with 12 lights, two with 4+8 lights, and one blind aperture. The attic floor has one original sash window with 6 lights. Most windows in the main house have moulded plaster labels above them. The Old Rectory is noted for being an exceptionally complete example of its style and period and is shown in the tithe award of 1841 from the Essex Record Office.