The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house, originally a rectory, dating back to the 16th or 17th century, with significant additions and alterations made in the early 19th century and the 20th century. It is constructed of timber framing and brick, with pargetted and colourwashed render, and has a thatched roof.

The entrance front features a projecting early 19th-century bay on the right, with colourwashed pargetting and a hipped roof. To the left of this is the earlier 16th or 17th-century section, which has a 19th-century verandah at ground-floor level, with entrance lobbies at either side and a wooden trellis supporting a hipped roof. Behind the verandah is an early 19th-century three-light casement window, and above it a similar window on the first floor. To the left at ground-floor level is a 3-light 19th-century casement, matched by a jettied first-floor window with applied timber planking simulating close studding.

The right-hand flank shows an early 19th-century addition with two pairs of French windows, above which are panels of imitation timber framing. Below are two first-floor windows, each with two lights and louvred shutters. The left-hand flank has a projecting ground-floor extension with a hipped slate roof and a 3-light casement with ogee heads to the lights on the first floor, alongside a single-light similar window. To the left of this is a 19th-century two-storey addition with a four-pane sash window.

At the rear, a projecting 19th-century wing has two ground-floor windows, and to its left-hand flank is a half-glazed door with a cambered head, and a four-pane sash window. Two similar windows are situated above on the first floor, with louvred shutters. To the left of this, recessed, is the original 16th/17th-century axial range, which has a projecting ground-floor bay window with five central lights with ogee heads and two to the sides. To the left of this is a 3-light window with similar ogee heads. The first floor has three 2-light casements.

Inside, the kitchen has chestnut beams and posts, with some 20th-century timbers. The sitting room contains a pine or chestnut beam, and a 15th or 16th-century chimney bressumer, possibly recovered from the church rood screen and reused. The bressumer features an upper arcade of four-centered arches with complex roll and cavetto moulds. The first-floor corridor displays close studding and a blocked window. Bedroom ceiling heights have been raised, and there is a winder staircase of pine.