The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the early to mid 16th century. It was substantially extended, raised, floored, and heated in the mid 17th century, with later alterations in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed with plastered infill, some later brick casing, and a tiled roof.

Originally a two-bay open hall, the house was extended to the right with a lobby entrance bay and a lower cross wing. A rear staircase wing was added, and the hall range was raised a storey, with a floor inserted just below the former hall head height. The building now has two storeys with an attic to the hall range. The front hall range has lower 20th-century brick casing and two 3-light leaded casement windows. The upper level of the hall displays exposed close studding and a curved passing tension brace on the left side. A former diagonal mullioned window is visible on the right. The 17th-century upper level features thin scantling studding and a passing tension brace. A 3-light casement window is present. The lobby entrance bay to the right has a 20th-century brick and timber gabled porch. The first floor projects slightly with a 2-light casement, also with thin scantling. The cross wing to the far right also has thin scantling and three 3-light 20th-century casement windows. The first floor is jettied on thin joists, with jowled posts, braces to a tie beam, and struts to clasped purlins.

A 17th-century axial stack on the entrance bay has a moulded cornice with six conjoined diagonally set shafts. The right return side shows similar framing and 3-light casements. The left gable end of the hall has exposed 16th and 17th-century framing, with jowled posts to a clasped purlin roof. There are 20th-century casement windows, and on the first floor, two blocked diagonal mullioned windows and a 2-light leaded casement in the attic.

To the rear, a catslide roof covers a 17th-century, two-storey lean-to outshut from the hall. A gabled stair wing, with 17th-century framing, is located to the rear of the entrance bay. The cross wing extends further to the rear.

The interior includes stop-chamfered binding beams. The parlour and first-floor fireplaces have 4-centred chamfered brick arches with stopped jambs. The hall fireplace has a chamfered lintel with a Jacobean panelled surround, featuring three arched panels with lozenges and fluted pilasters, and curved windbraces.