The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a circa 1850 rectory, later adapted as a house, built in the Gothic style. The building is constructed of flint, with brick and stone quoins and dressings, and has gabled roofs with brick chimneystacks. The east front, which serves as the entrance front, is two storeys and attics with two gables; the right-hand gable has a half-timbered jettied gable over the entrance porch. The gables have heavily moulded bargeboards. Features include a four-bay oriel window to the first floor and a four-light casement window to the gable. The entrance has a solid boarded and ribbed door within a heavily moulded stone surround. The massing and scale of the house diminishes to the north, with one and a half and single-storey service quarters, having north-facing gables with plain bargeboards and exposed purlins. The south, or garden, front has a gable with bargeboards and a French window to the ground floor, with two further bays featuring sash windows to the first floor and French windows to the ground floor. The west front has two bays, including a later 19th-century wood and brick conservatory and a wide four-panelled door. A single-storey service range adjoins the north side.

The interior plan is centred on a north-south axial corridor with a staircase at the south end. The principal ground floor rooms feature marble fire surrounds and timber ribbed ceilings. Windows are internally shuttered with vertically sliding shutters that rise from cellar pits. The softwood staircase has barley twist balusters, a heavily moulded string and handrail, square newel posts with caps, and turned pendants. A separate service staircase has stick balusters. Extensive cellarage contains wine bins, a coal store, and a well.