The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating from 1635, with extensions added in the 1841. It is constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings and a pantiled roof. The building is double pile, featuring a two-story, gabled cross wing to the south with attics, and a single-story service wing to the south. The west facade is asymmetrical with 19th-century detailing and a projecting gable to the south. The fabric of the north-western pile is 17th century. This pile's facade has a central entrance door with a rendered surround and a battlemented parapet. Flanking the door are 19th-century sash windows with margin lights, glazing bars, and rendered reveals. The building also features a rendered plinth, quoining at the angles, and a string course. A central corbelled dormer has a sash window and a stepped gable, and a battlemented parapet runs along the eaves. The gable to the south has a single window, with a plinth, sash windows, and flat brick arches. The north-western gable exhibits attic windows with rendered mullions, brick kneelers and steps, and an end stack with square paired shafts. The east elevation, dating from the 19th century, has projecting gables at the north and south ends and a canted bay to the north. The central section has four windows, with an asymmetric entrance door and a staircase window to the right, featuring a stone coat of arms above. Centrally placed paired gabled dormers are also present. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, set within flat, gauged gault brick arches with key bricks and gault brick quoining. There's a brick plinth, gault brick quoining, a string course, battlemented parapets, and stepped gables with finials at the apex and bases. A north-east gable stack has triple square plan shafts. Axial stacks are on each pile. The single-story service wing has parapet eaves and a gable. A large external stack to the east features paired octagonal gault brick shafts. The ground floor of the 17th-century pile has ovolo-moulded beams. The building contains 19th-century fireplaces with cast iron grates and marble surrounds. There are 17th-century casements with crown glass bulls eyes and large spring catches. The attic of the north-west pile showcases a 17th-century clasped purlin roof with wind braces.