The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the early 18th century, built for Rev. C. Proby. It incorporates parts of a late 16th and 17th century structure. The main range is of red brick, while an earlier range is timber-framed, partly brick cased and cement rendered. The roofs are tiled, with a hipped form. The property has a five-bay, two-storey and attic main range, along with a surviving two-storey, cross-range forming an L-shape that extends to the rear right, with the earliest bays located to the rear.

The 18th-century facade features a slightly projecting central bay containing the main entrance. The door has six panels, four raised and fielded, and a semi-circular fanlight. The doorway is framed by Doric pilasters and an open pediment. The windows are glazing bar sashes with moulded flush frames and blind boxes. A dentil brick cornice and pediment top the central bay, while a stone-coped parapet runs along the roofline. Dormers have moulded heads, with two having casements and one a six-pane sash. A French window is on the ground floor of the left end, and a sash window above. To the rear of the left bay is a projecting stack with offsets.

A slightly set-back 17th-century range to the right has a double-hipped roof to the front. The left side of this range is incorporated into the main range, featuring a large, early stack originally cross-axial. This stack was extended to become an internal end stack on the main range and has been rebuilt. To the right front of the 17th-century range, a first-floor sash window has a flush frame and glazing bars. The two-bay right end of this range has a stock brick base, a ground-floor five-light casement, and a first-floor sash window with glazing bars. Two earlier bays project slightly at the rear with a separate roof. The ground floor has a blocked entrance, now a two-light casement within an 18th-century surround. This surround features brackets supporting a pedimented hood with a Sun Fire Insurance Marker. To the right are two and three-light flush frame casements in red brick. The first floor has two sixteen-pane flush frame sashes. The rear gable end exposes a tie beam, and an external 18th-century stack rises with multiple offsets. A low, hipped outshut is at the rear of the main range, along with a shallow early 20th-century extension and one hipped dormer.

Inside, a central dog leg staircase incorporates column balusters and a moulded ramped handrail. The earlier range has a ground floor exhibiting exposed timber framing with jowled posts, a curved brace in the walling, and a first floor with panelled rooms. The early 17th-century rooms feature vertical panels with five ornamentally moulded panels above the fireplace, while a second room has early 18th-century bolection moulded panelling, all of which were likely reset from Tewin House, which was demolished in 1807.