The Rectory

The Rectory, now a house, dates back to the 15th century and has undergone alterations in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It is constructed of timber framing, now rendered, with a plain tile roof. The building is of Wealden design, featuring two hall bays of unequal length and storeyed end bays. An internal jetty, possibly a blocked undershot cross-passage, is visible at the left end of the longer, right-hand hall bay. It is likely the property was converted to a lobby entry plan in the 17th century. A rear return wing of timber framing extends to the left of two bays of the main range; the bay adjoining the main range is broader, spanning two bays of the main range, and is dated 1664. A further rear return wing, likely dating to the 18th century or earlier, is positioned on the right-hand side.

The house has two storeys and an attic, with a rendered plinth. Both the right and left end bays are jettied to the front, with an inserted jetty to the hall featuring a higher bressumer. It has a moulded wooden eaves cornice and a steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Slender projecting gable-end stacks are present, the left-hand one dating to the 18th century. A multiple brick ridge stack is situated on the shorter left hall bay. The windows are irregular arrangements of sashes in open boxes, including two 12-pane windows to the left end bay, one 8-pane under the stack, two 12-pane to the right hall bay and another 12-pane to the right end bay. A similar window arrangement is found on the ground floor. A panelled front door is set under the stack, featuring Doric pilasters, a pulvinated frieze and a dentilled cornice.

The rendered rear return wing on the left has a hipped roof to the rear of the first bay and a gabled roof to the narrower second bay, with a lower ridge. A lean-to section, extending in two parts, is attached to the long, right-hand side of the wing. A further rear lean-to is present adjacent to the right hall bay. A single-storey outshot with a stack is located at the gable end of the left wing.

Internally, the timber framing is exposed in places. A central octagonal crown-post with a square moulded capital and cushion base sits on a heavily-cambered, hollow-chamfered tie-beam morticed for large arch-braces meeting towards the centre. Plain end-of-hall crown-posts are also visible. A rebated crown-post on a cambered chamfered axial tie-beam with solid-spandrel arch-braces is found in the right end bay. Bases of two shaped brackets, likely for a pre-1664 oriel window, are visible on the rear wall of the left end bay of the main range. A chamfered 17th-century brick fireplace is located on the first floor of the right end room. A chamfered cross-beam is present in the rear bay of the left wing, carved with the legend: "This house was built by John Davis Rector of Otham 1664 A.D.". An 18th-century staircase with moulded balusters and shaped cheeks is situated in the broader bay of the left wing, behind the hall stack. Fielded panelling is present on the ground floor of the left end bay of the main range, with a shouldered fireplace surround featuring a pulvinated frieze. There are also 18th-century panelled doors. A pump is located in the rear lean-to.