Garden Walls To The Old Rectory

The garden walls to The Old Rectory were built around 1690 and are made of limestone rubble. The walls stand approximately 3 metres high and feature a rendered tapering rubble coping. They enclose the garden to the south and the courtyard to the north of The Old Rectory, with the circuit completed by the Tithe Barn range. There is an entrance from The Walk that includes 20th-century gatepiers and wrought-iron gates that were brought from Ireland. An original pedestrian entrance from the south, which led from Mill Street, is now blocked. The Old Rectory itself was constructed between 1689 and 1690 for Dr. Robert South, and a late 17th-century engraving depicts the garden walls.