Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a manor house, later used as a rectory, dating from the late 15th century, possibly built for Sir Ralph Shelton or his son, the priest Shelton, around 1525. It is constructed of brick with terracotta dressings and red pantiled roofs. The house originally comprised an hexagonal building around an open courtyard, of which one complete range and a further half-range between angle towers survive.

The west range features a three-sided tower to the north, with a top stage of terracotta in Perpendicular tracery, and a five-sided tower to the south, both with multiple stages of empty niches. A terracotta frieze band runs at first-floor and eaves level, featuring IHS and MR monograms, shields and lozenge panels, likely original to the house or an insertion around 1525. Four sash windows with glazing bars have replaced earlier gothic-headed mullions; one mullioned window remains partly exposed at first-floor level. Detached terracotta panels are ornamented with Renaissance finials and profile heads. There are two 18th-century and one 20th-century dormers. A four-stack chimney is positioned off-centre.

A late 18th-century porch has thin fluted pilasters, brackets, a frieze and a dentil cornice, along with a half-glazed door containing glazing bars. A 16th-century door with linen-fold panels and blank tracery, divided into three lower, three central and three upper panels, displays a central Shelton crest and IHS and MR monograms.

To the south-east is the best-preserved gabled half-range. It contains a 3-light and a 4-light basket-headed mullioned moulded brick window on the ground floor, and a 3-light and a 4-light four-centred arch-headed mullioned window with hood-moulds and masks at the first floor. Renaissance style friezes are visible at the first floor and eaves. A central chimney bracket is decorated with Perpendicular panelling and a central shield, topped with two 19th-century stacks. The gable has two 20th-century windows.

To the west is a two-storey, two-bay wing and a one-storey wing, dating from around 1840 and featuring prominent stacks. The north gable of the west front shows a 17th-century rebuilding beyond the angle tower, and is rendered. At the rear, a late 17th- or early 18th-century gabled wing is located to the north, alongside an early 19th-century staircase pile with a tripartite window containing glazing bars. A further wing, built around 1840, comprises two gabled blocks.