The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a large house dating to circa 1840, built in a free Gothic Jacobean style. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar quoins, and has a gable end slate roof. The building features groups of three yellow brick chimney stacks to the north and south ends; the southern ones are diagonally set with octagonal caps. The front facade has an asymmetrical arrangement of three gabled bays, displaying saddle stones and kneelers, with a yellow brick chimney serving as a finial on the south gable. The intervening wall sections are topped with parapets and coping. The windows are arranged as four on the first floor, three on the ground floor, and are two-light casements, several of which are transomed, set within broad rendered surrounds. The attic and first-floor windows in the main gabled bay, and those below the south gable, have drip moulds. A gabled porch, also with saddle stones and kneelers, provides the entrance, featuring a four-centred moulded arch and a similar shaped panelled and glazed door. The south side has a three-light bay window on the first floor, along with two casements with drip moulds, and a gable above. The ground floor has a French window with a drip mould.