The Old Rectory Including Courtyard To West

The Old Rectory is a house dating from the early 18th century, with alterations and additions made in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and rendered brick, with old tile roofs. The building has a rectangular plan, including a projecting gabled cross wing to the east and two half-hipped gables to the north.

The south front’s left-hand block is two storeys high at the front and two-and-a-half storeys at the rear. It features a rendered plat band, a wooden dentil eaves cornice that runs around the left-hand gable, a dentil brick eaves cornice to the rear, a parapeted gable end to the left, end stacks, and a rear stack. There are five bays with glazing bar sashes, with exposed wooden boxes on the first floor. A 19th-century square bay window with a segmental headed tripartite sash and a hipped slate roof is on the left, and a 19th-century canted bay window with sashes and a hipped slate roof on the right. The central entrance has a half-glazed door with three arched upper lights, three lower panels, arched side lights, and a 19th-century porch with a four-panelled door, a radial fanlight, and arched side lights. Three bays are visible at the rear, featuring a central first-floor glazing bar sash flanked by two tripartite glazing bar sashes set in large arched recesses. The right-hand block is two storeys high with a garret, and a gable front. It has plat bands above the ground and first-floor windows, a garret cill band, a stack to the right, and an end stack to the rear. It has two bays with sashes, one in the garret.

A courtyard to the west includes an early 19th-century screen wall, approximately 10 metres long and 2 metres high, set back to the left. It is of red brick with timber lacing courses and a dentil brick cornice and has seven bays of blank semi-circular arches with imposts. A former coach house, now a garage, is situated to the left. It is of red brick with an old tile roof and a gable front, and is L-shaped. It has two stacks to the rear and a weathervane to the front, at left. The gable end has two ground-floor two-light segmental headed casements and a thermal window above.