The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a rectory that has been converted into a house, built around 1806 and enlarged in 1855. It features squared coursed limestone with brick dressings on the earliest part, and has hipped and gabled slate roofs with brick ridge and internal stacks. The building has a double depth plan with additions from around 1855 to the left and rear. It is two storeys tall, plus an attic, and has a four-window range. On the left side, there is a late 19th-century two-story canted bay window. The entrance is to the right and is flanked by sash windows with glazing bars, horns, and brick flat arches, with a 20th-century door. The first floor has three unhorned sash windows with glazing bars and there are three roof dormers. Inside, there is a 19th-century marble fireplace, moulded ceiling cornices, ceiling pendants, and panelled doors. Roundell Palmer, the 1st Earl of Selborne and Lord Chancellor, was born here in 1812 and died in 1895. The rectory was built by Reverend William Jocelyn Palmer on the site of an old rectory that was demolished between 1806 and 1810.