The Old Rectory and St Johns House

The Old Rectory, now also known as St Johns House, is a complex building with elements dating back to the 13th century, probably originating as part of the manor house belonging to the Prior of Christ Church Monastery. The south-eastern portion is thought to have been built around 1280, featuring a hall on the first floor and a cellar below. This section is constructed with flints and has long and short ashlar quoins. It has a hipped tiled roof. The ground floor is punctuated by a single window consisting of three cinquefoil-headed lights with stone mullions. Above this is a double stone window with two trefoil-headed lights.

The central portion of the building is from the 19th century, but incorporates an older core of two storeys and is constructed with red brick and a tiled roof. A north-eastern projection dates to the 18th century and is also built of red brick, featuring two crow-stepped gables, two sash windows with intact glazing bars, a stringcourse, and a cornice. To the west of the south-eastern portion is a further section, dating from the 17th to 18th centuries, with a red brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor. Simple doorcases are present.

Inside, the building contains a late 15th-century wooden ceiling and remnants of a 16th-century fireplace. A floor joist to the hall may be original. The Rev Maric Casaubon, a classical scholar and son of the more famous Isaac Casauton, who served as Rector of Ickham from 1662 to 1671, lived in the house during those years and died there in 1671.