Rectory Farm House

Rectory Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid 16th century, with a stack added in the 17th century. It has been altered and extended in the 19th century and further modified in the 20th century. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with some brick casing and an extension. It features a steeply pitched machine-tiled roof and was originally five bays wide, with a central smoke bay situated between a large hall and a parlour. A service range, likely detached, no longer exists. There is a one-bay extension at the lower end of the hall.

The house is two storeys high and was originally continuously jettied along the front. The ground floor is underbuilt in brick, featuring two 2-light windows with cambered key-blocked heads on the left side, corresponding to the parlour bays, and a similar window in the added right bay. A 20th-century lean-to porch is located at the centre, while the first floor has 20th-century 2-light casements and boxed eaves. The axial ridge stack has been rebuilt at the original centre. The left or parlour gable end has ground floor brick cladding and may have been jettied, featuring 17th-century acanthus consoles on the wall plates. The right gable end is made of 19th-century brick and has an internal end stack. The rear displays exposed brick at the base of the main stack, along with 20th-century casements and a 20th-century lean-to outshut.

Inside, the hall is richly moulded, with crossed binding beams and storey posts that are continuously and completely roll, wave, and hollow moulded. The upper end, joists, and mid rails are similarly treated. The parlour has slightly simpler mouldings on the binding beams and joists. There are blocked cross passage doors at the lower end of the hall, and close studding is present throughout. On the first floor, there are large 4 and 5-light complex ovolo mullioned window openings, moulded binding beams, and reverse curved bracing in the end wall. The roof features queen posts with cranked longitudinal braces extending from the posts to the arcade plates and purlins. The site is partly moated.