The Old Rectory And Attached Stable And Outhouse Ranges

The Old Rectory and attached stable and outhouse ranges is a rectory that has been converted into a house and stables, built in 1815 by Thomas Cundy. The structure features limestone ashlar, squared rubble, and some tile hanging, topped with Welsh-slate roofs and ashlar stacks. It is designed in an L-shape with service and subsidiary ranges and has two storeys.

The front of the building is irregular, with the main range on the right and a wing that projects to the extreme right. There is a two-storey crenellated porch at the angle of the main range. The gables have stepped parapets with triangular copings and projecting kneelers, and the stacks feature paired diagonal ashlar shafts. The windows are mostly 12-pane sash windows, with some blind windows, all having plain architraves and label moulds. The entrance has a four-centre arched porch leading to a four-panel door with a fanlight, and there is a similar window above it.

To the left, there is a lower double-gabled range that was likely added later, with the front tile-hung above a wooden arcade. The extreme left features a projecting wing of the rubble service range at the rear. The right side of the main range has a three-window elevation with a gabled projecting right bay that includes a wide four-centred archway at the ground floor. The garden front at the rear also has three windows and breaks back in the right bay, which contains a crenellated bay window at the ground floor. A four-window service range extends to the right of this bay and bears the date 1815 on its gable wall.

The interior retains original joinery and stairs. The subsidiary ranges attached to the left end of the house form a three-sided court, including an irregular single-storey range at the front with a wing returning forwards at the extreme left. At the rear, there is a stable range with a central pyramid-roofed two-storey section, featuring a two-window front of segmental-arched two-light casements that break forward from flanking lower sections with dormers and loft doors. The design is noted to have been based on a concept obtained by Lord Jersey in 1812 from Henry Hakewill.