The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a large house largely dating from the 1840s, built on a 17th-century core and earlier foundations. The original core is timber-framed and was extended in brick, with the entire facade subsequently stuccoed. The building has slate roofs. It appears to consist of two parallel ranges; the earlier core was originally three bays with end stacks. A large T-shaped addition was built to the right and set back. The two-storey core was raised, with an attic added to the same height as the two storeys of the later build.

The earlier range incorporates a reset 15th-century stone door surround, likely from a monastic site. It features a heavily moulded pointed arch with shafted jambs, blank shields and daggers in the spandrels, a square head with a hoodmould, a studded door, and a rectangular fanlight above. Flanking this doorway are tripartite sash windows in shallow reveals; the ground floor has two 16-pane sashes, and the attic has three small-paned, two-light casements.

To the right, a change in floor levels indicates the later build, consisting of two bays with 12- and 16-pane sashes. The rightmost bay features an applied giant Tuscan order, leading to a recessed four-panelled door, a traceried rectangular fanlight, panelled soffits and reveals, a half-pilastered architrave, a modillion blocked pediment, and a recessed margin-glazed two-light casement on the first floor. The building has boxed eaves. The roof is hipped across the whole range, with a rebuilt ridge stack to the left and a rendered stack on the front pitch at the original right end.

The left return has two-light casements, while the right return features a first-floor three-light window with round-headed lights and, below it, angle pilasters stopped with a band above a lean-to conservatory extending from a rear block. The garden front is symmetrical, with a 1:2:1 projection to the centre, featuring an applied giant Tuscan order, paired plasterwork, and a shallow pediment with a blank shield. The ground floor has tall margin-glazed casements, some with round-headed lights and consoles to floating cornices. The first floor has a similar arrangement of three-light casements. Ridge stacks with bases and cornices are positioned to the left of centre and at the right end. The left gable end has ground-floor French windows with round-headed lights, a floating cornice on consoles, two first-floor two-light casements with round-headed lights, paired giant pilasters, and a pedimental gable with a blank shield.

A one-story outbuilding is attached to the right end, behind the earlier range. The interior has not been inspected.