The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is an early 19th century house, formerly the Rectory, built of gault brick with a hipped slate roof. The main facade faces south and has three bays over two storeys, with a central bay projecting and topped with a pediment. The windows are recessed sashes with glazing bars, and flat arches. The bays on either side of the central bay on the ground floor have semi-circular recesses containing sashes, with lower wood panels and two stone steps leading up to them. The right return, facing east, has four bays and a two-storey porch with a hipped slate roof and a semi-circular headed doorway containing a panelled door and a wooden tympanum. There’s a wide stair window, dated about 1900, with four lights, two transoms, and a semi-circular light above the central two lights. The left return, facing west, has three bays and two storeys, with pilaster strips at the angles. A two-storey canted bay window is present on the first bay, with sashes and a polygonal slate roof. Attached to the north-east is a three-bay two-storeyed range built of uncoursed carstone rubble with gault brick dressings. This range has recessed sashes with glazing bars and quoined surrounds. A central doorway on the east facade of this range has a rectangular fanlight above a four-panelled part-glazed door. Gault brick stacks are present, one with an enclosed three-light roof dormer and bulbous chimney pots. Similar chimney pots are on the main house. Inside, one room to the north-west has a plaster ceiling rose, an acanthus leaf frieze, and a white marble fireplace with reeded columns. Another room to the south-west has a plaster ceiling rose, panelled walls, an acanthus leaf frieze, and a grey marble fireplace.