The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations and extensions made in the mid to late 19th century and further changes in the 20th century. It has a timber frame that is plastered, with extensions in whitewashed brick, and features a thatched roof. The building has six bays and three cells, originally designed with a cross passage plan, which has been extended at the rear to form a T shape with a five-window front.

On the ground floor, there are central 19th-century garden doors with sidelights, all margin glazed, and an architrave with a cornice. To the right, there is a small two-light leaded casement and a large three-light casement with hexagon and diamond pattern glazing, while to the left, there is a similar three-light casement. The first floor has two and three-light part opening leaded pane casements. A rebuilt stack is located on the ridge to the left of centre between the original hall and parlour, and there is a right end 19th-century internal stack, both with cogged oversailing caps. The gable ends feature mixed casements and traces of herringbone panelled pargetting, with overhanging gables supported by curved brackets.

At the rear right, there is a 19th-century lean-to with an entrance in the return, which includes a part glazed, part fielded six-panel door set in a chamfered surround. Extending from the rear centre is a two-bay 19th-century addition with mixed casements, some lattice leaded and some with segmental heads. Towards the rear, there is a 20th-century porch and an external red brick stack with a cogged oversailing cap, along with a lean-to backhouse. The left return features a further one-storey and attic projection with a gabled half dormer stair window.

Inside, the frame is concealed on the ground floor, but there are stop-chamfered binding beams and joists, along with a late 19th-century staircase. The first floor reveals exposed close studding and a straight arched brace to a cambered tie beam. The purlins are clasped by cambered collars and halved principals in closed trusses, and butted into chamfered principals in open trusses, with arched windbraces.