The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house that was formerly a rectory, dating from the 17th century with remodelling and additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of brick, which partly encases an earlier timber frame, with some sections rendered and colourwashed. It features a black glazed pantiled roof that has a shallower pitch over the south end.

The house is two storeys high with attics and has a cruciform plan, partly double pile to the north. The south gable includes ground floor half-glazed double doors with an eared architrave and a rectangular fanlight above. The first floor and attic have sash windows with glazing bars. The gable has a parapet with ball finials at the base and dentilled brick eaves.

There is a cross wing facing the road, which has clasping corner pilasters topped with ball finials and steep gable parapets. This wing features two ground floor and two first floor sash windows with glazing bars and architraves, as well as an attic sash in the gable apex. A large external stack is located at the south-west angle, with weathered offsets and a top section rebuilt in gault brick.

The earlier north range has four windows, all sash with glazing bars and architraves. There are also four attic dormers with rendered and weatherboarded cheeks, featuring sash windows with glazing bars. A large square axial chimney stack is present, and there is a notable doorway opposite the stack, which has a panelled reveal, fluted Doric pilasters supporting an open pediment, a semi-circular fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, and a pair of half-glazed doors with glazing bars. The building has a modillion eaves cornice and an internal chimney stack in the north gable of the eastern pile. Additionally, there is a small single storey gabled extension at the north gable.

Inside, the property contains a good staircase dating from around 1680, featuring turned balusters.