The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a large house dating to 1827, built for Rev. W. Pemberton. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof and has an irregular L-shaped plan. The front elevation features three bays of unevenly spaced glazing bar sashes in flush moulded frames, with gauged brick flat arches above the windows. The first floor windows are 3:6 pane sashes. A replacement window now occupies the position of the original entrance. To the left is a small hipped projection containing the entrance, featuring a reset six-panelled door with a semi-circular traceried fanlight and a Doric doorcase with dosserets to an open pediment. The right gable end has kneelers to the parapet, with an extruded end stack towards the rear, and recessed 20th-century sash windows flanking it.

The garden front at the rear has a full-height bow window to the left of centre, flanked by central French windows and glazing bar sashes, with margin glazing on the first floor. The windows have rendered lintels and a continuous, mutuled eaves cornice with flat heads. To the right are three bays with a central entrance, and to the left two bays, all with glazing bar sashes similar to those on the front. The roof is hipped to the right end, and attached is a kitchen block with a similar bow window. This wing has leaded casements behind. The service wing’s exterior has a six-panelled door, two bays of sashes, an eaves cornice, pedimented dormers, an axial ridge stack, and a hipped roof.

Inside, the staircase has a moulded ramped handrail with slat balusters, and the ceilings feature simple plaster cornices.