The Rectory

The Rectory is a house dating from the early 18th century, with some minor features from the early 19th century, wings and alterations from around 1860, and a rear porch added around 1900. The building has brick walls in Flemish bond with blue headers and red dressings, featuring a plinth, rubbed flat arches, and aprons below the cills. It has a hipped tile roof and a modillion eaves cornice.

The symmetrical west front elevation is two storeys high with an attic and five windows, flanked by two-storeyed lower wings that are set back and have one window each. The windows include original sashes, some in early 19th-century reveals, and some Victorian sashes, with a splayed stone ground-floor bay on the north side and sashes in the three dormers beneath pediments. The doorway has two phases; the original features include a radiating fanlight and stone steps, while later additions have a Gothic style, including an open pediment with a panelled soffit, thin mouldings of a Tuscan Order, and clustered columns and half-columns.

The original end elevations are obscured by the wings, which have hipped roofs and corner pilasters with irregular features. At the rear, there is a two-storeyed porch with arcading that protects an original doorway with a fanlight and ground-floor casements. Inside, two rooms are almost completely panelled, and the original staircase has been modified with later rails that may be copies. A recently discovered fragment of wood panel has lettering that includes the name of the Rev. Bromley, who began his ministry at Wickham in 1733.