The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house that was originally built as a rectory in the 17th century. It was remodeled around 1670 by James Stopes and again in the early 18th century for his son, also named James Stopes. The building is constructed of Flemish bond red brick, featuring purple brick diaper patterns on the side walls, and has an old tile roof with brick stacks. It has a T-plan layout with a rear right range and is designed in the early Georgian style.

The structure is two storeys tall with an attic and has a five-window range. There is a segmental moulded hood above a six-panelled door set in a moulded architrave. All windows are sash style, with gauged brick flat arches on the ground floor and flat brick arches above. A raised storey band and a moulded cornice run around the building. The roof is gabled and features three hipped dormers with 20th-century lights, as well as rear lateral and ridge stacks.

At the rear right, there is a 17th-century wing that has a three-window range. This wing is rendered on the left and has square timber framing over an 18th-century brick wall on the right, with a gauged brick flat arch over a 20th-century window, a hipped dormer, and a gabled old tile roof with a ridge stack.

Inside, the front range contains early 18th-century doors in moulded architraves and timber-framed partitions leading to a central passage. The left side features an early 18th-century cornice and fireplace, while the right side has a mid-19th-century plaster ceiling. There is a late 17th-century open-well staircase in the rear right, which has turned balusters on a closed string, ball-finial newel posts, pendentives, and pilasters to the dado. The rear includes a two-unit lobby-entry range from the 17th century with original chamfered doorways next to a stack, chamfered and stopped beams, and a barley-malting room with trap doors at the back.