The Old Rectory Cottage

The Old Rectory Cottage is a house that was formerly the Rectory, dating from the 18th century but altered and incorporating a 17th-century cellar and other walling. It is constructed of coursed rubblestone, with part of the roof covered in old tiles and part in slate. The building has five bays and two storeys, featuring dormers. The central door is glazed and topped with a pointed arched fanlight that has interlacing glazing, set within an architrave doorcase supported by Doric pilasters and an entablature. It has box sash windows and a band course. Above the string course, there is a parapet with two attic sashes in stone gables that are coped and have kneelers. These features are mid-19th-century additions made by the incumbent, Reverend C.G. Hilton. The house has a double pile layout with mid-19th-century yellow brick stacks on each pair of flanking stone coped gables on kneelers. The sides mostly have sash windows, with some casements. There is a 19th-century bay window on the north side, and to the east of it are two 17th-century two-light quarter-round moulded stone mullioned windows that serve the half-basements. Inside, there is an 18th-century full-height staircase with fluted newel posts, twisted balusters, and carved tread ends. The front ground floor rooms include an early 19th-century reeded cornice on the left and a 19th-century chimney piece.