The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house that was once a rectory, built around 1550 to 1580. It has a two-cell lobby entrance plan and stands two storeys tall. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a plaintiled roof that features an axial chimney. This chimney has four attached square shafts made of red brick, which are likely a 20th-century rebuild of a 17th-century stack. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th or 20th century. There is a 20th-century gabled plaintiled entrance porch with a panelled door. The Old Rectory is a large and well-constructed example of the two-cell house form, characterized by heavy unmoulded framing, tension braced close-studding, unchamfered large floor joists laid flat, binding beams with a broad chamfer, a two-tier side-purlin roof, and back-to-back open fireplaces. At the rear, there is a two-storey flat-roofed extension made of painted brick from the 20th century.