The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house, originally a rectory, dating back to the 17th century, with later additions and alterations from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with colourwashed stucco render and a plain tile roof. The house has two storeys and features projecting wings on either side of a recessed central range. The front facade is covered with stucco grooved to imitate ashlar, which was renewed in 1986. The central entrance is framed by a Greek-revival surround with baseless Doric columns and a moulded entablature featuring triglyphs and mutule blocks. The door itself has a glazed upper panel and two recessed lower panels. There are four-pane sash windows on either side of the door, with three similar sashes on the first floor above. The right-hand wing, originally gabled in the 17th century, has tripartite ground and first-floor windows with Tudor hood moulds and decorative bargeboards with a mace finial. The left-hand wing has a ground and first-floor sash window resembling those in the central range. An early 19th-century brick chimney stack with four flues is located on the ridge to the right, and a single-flue chimney stack to the left. A brick addition on the left side has a plate glass sash window on the ground floor and a four-pane sash window on the first floor.

At the rear, a single-storey outshut extends from the central range, featuring a pair of French windows on the left and a three-by-four-pane sash window on the right. Two flush-gabled wings are situated to the left. The wing furthest left has four-by-three-pane sash windows on the ground floor, a single-light window to the right, and a matching sash window on the first floor, along with an attic window. A smaller staircase wing on the right has a three-by-four-pane window at mezzanine level. The right-hand wing is smoothly rendered and includes a two-light casement window on the ground floor and a four-by-three-pane sash window on the first floor.

The interior of the 17th-century wing retains chamfered ceiling beams, jowled wall posts, close studding with a blocked window, and wind bracing. The remainder of the house features slender close studding with tension bracing from the 18th century, along with some pine beams.