The Old Rectory Surgery

The Old Rectory Surgery is a house, later adapted for use as a surgery, built in 1793 and with a 20th-century addition to the west. It is constructed of red brick with composition and peg tiles, and has red brick stacks. The building is square and double-pile, with an attached irregular western block and a late 18th and 20th-century L-shaped addition to the west. The property has two storeys and a cellar.

The front, south elevation, is a three-bay range with dentilled eaves. All windows and doorways have segmented arched heads. The roof is hipped. A flat-roofed extension, almost the full length of the ground floor, has a cement cornice and parapet. A central, outer doorway has double-leaf doors with 4x4 panes of glass. Large tripartite sash windows, with 1x4, 3x4, and 1x4 panes, are located on either side. The first floor has tripartite sash windows - 2x4, 3x4, and 2x4 panes – with a central 4x4 sash window. Voussoirs around the windows retain tuck pointing. Two stacks rise from the side roof ridges. To the west, a 20th-century addition in a matching style has a three-bay range with a hipped roof at the west end, a central gabled bay, and three similar windows with 4x4 panes of glass.

The rear, north elevation, is also three bays with dentilled eaves and smaller windows than the front elevation. A projecting 19th-century trelliswork porch with a flat, bracketed hood and arched side openings covers the ground floor doorway. A small 19th-century casement window with 2x3 panes is situated to the right of the porch. Other windows on the ground and first floors are mostly replacements with 2-light casements, mostly 4x3 panes, although some retain late 18th-century windows with 3x2 panes. A cellar grille is located to the left of the porch. Further to the west, a blank 19th-century wall is behind a deeply-set 20th-century addition with a 4x3-paned window.

The west elevation has a first-floor tripartite window with 1x4, 3x4, and 1x4 panes, and a smaller window with 3x3 panes. The ground floor is irregular, with late 18th-century north and 20th-century south wings, separated by a set-back area with a 4x4-paned sash window and a simple 20th-century six-panelled door. The east elevation has a three-window range in the matching style, with the middle window set off-centre to the north. Both floors have outer 4x4-paned windows and a central, original tripartite window with 1x4, 3x4, and 1x4 panes, incorporating some uneven old glass.

Two stone plaques with Latin inscriptions are fixed to the walls; one dated 1793 records the rebuilding of the house, and the other, dated 1963, records its conversion to a doctor's surgery.

Inside, the inner doorway has fielded panelled reveals and a late 18th-century six-panelled door with glazed upper panels. The house contains fielded six-panel doors and a contemporary dogleg staircase with simple stick balusters and a mahogany handrail. A circular roof-light illuminates the first-floor landing. Details of the demolition and costing of the 1790s work are documented in a carpenter's account at Audley End estate.