Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a former rectory house dated 1643, located on High Street in Ringstead. It features coursed squared and rubble carstone with red brick dressings and tiled roofs. The building has a two-storey double pile plan, with the front pile facing east. The east elevation has irregular 19th and 20th-century window arrangements, including two straight-headed three-light casements and two arched-headed casements with two and three lights on the ground floor. The first floor has four three-light casements, including a large off-centre mid-19th-century casement with three lights and nine panes that lights the staircase. There is a 20th-century door, and all openings have brick dressings, with traces of blocked long and low windows on both the ground and first floors.

The south gable features mid-19th-century brick quoins and a two-storey three-sided canted bow window with single-light side lights and three-light centre casements, topped with a tiled roof. It has a stone-coped gabled parapet with a datestone reading "16 M43 H?C". The north gable has a massive external stack with three main set-off stages and two mid-19th-century octagonal stacks, along with brick quoins, kneelers, and a stone-coped parapet. The main pile has an axial cluster of mid-19th-century octagonal stacks, and the rear pile has additional ridge stacks.