Gillingham House

Gillingham House is a former rectory built in the late 18th century. It features a brick structure that is partly rendered and colourwashed, with roofs made of slate and black glazed pantiles. The house has two storeys and attics, along with a two-storey rear wing, creating an unequal T-shaped plan with a double pile to the south.

The facade consists of six bays with sash windows that have glazing bars and cambered heads. The doorway, which is offset one bay to the east, has a six-panelled door framed by a moulded architrave and slim pilasters, topped with a projecting canopy. A dentilled cornice runs along the top. There are four attic dormers with cambered lead roofs, and the eaves feature a parapet. The gables are parapeted and coped; the east gable includes brick tumbling-in and an internal chimney stack, while the west gable has an elaborate external stack with corbelled flues and weathered offsets, also featuring tumbling-in.

At the west end of the rear wing, there is a two-storey semicircular bay that is partly slated and partly pantiled, with sash windows that have glazing bars and semicircular heads on the ground floor. The rear also has a two-storey hipped range with mainly 20th-century windows and later lean-tos on the west side, along with an off-centre chimney stack on the ridge line.

Inside, the principal ground floor rooms boast 18th-century ceilings with geometrical rib patterns, a good classical fireplace in the sitting room, and a plain contemporary staircase.