The Old Rectory And Old Rectory Cottage

The Old Rectory and Old Rectory Cottage comprise a complex of buildings with origins in the 14th century, a core built in the early 17th century, and a front range constructed around 1840. The front range is built of squared and coursed limestone with a 20th-century tile roof. It is two storeys high and features a three-bay main section and single-bay side walls. A two-storey central porch has a Tudor-style four-centred moulded arch over a 19th-century panelled door, which is half-glazed. Label moulds are present above the cavetto-moulded wooden cross windows. Kneelers are topped with ball finials on the gabled roof and porch. An early 17th-century parallel section extends to the rear. This block has a rear right outshut constructed of random limestone rubble with a gabled old tile roof. There's a brick gable end stack on the right and a stone stack with three brick flues adjacent to the mid-19th-century section. The left side wall of this block features mid-19th-century hood moulds over sash windows, a 17th-century hood mould above a two-light leaded casement at the top, and similar mid-19th-century detailing to the kneelers, coping, and finial. A two-storey lean-to porch on the left has a similar 17th-century style one-light window and a four-centred chamfered arch over a 19th-century six-panelled door. A 14th-century wing is positioned at right angles to the rear, featuring one-and-a-half storeys and a three-window range of random limestone rubble with ashlar quoins, a 20th-century tile roof, and timber lintels over a 20th-century door and casements. Gabled roof dormers have 18th-century three-light casements and a one-light casement, some retaining leaded lights. There is a similar three-window range to the rear. Internally, the front door leads to a mid-19th-century open-well staircase located at the rear of the 17th-century block. There are mid-19th-century six-panelled doors in moulded architraves, and some older plank doors. Additionally, mid-19th-century fireplaces are present, with a particularly ornate coloured marble fireplace in the front left room. The panelled left room of the 17th-century block has 17th-century stone fireplaces, a cyma moulded beam and plaster cornice, and a collar truss roof over the central block. The rear right outshut has a similar two-bay roof. The rear wing retains two of the originally three 14th-century raised crucks, featuring through splayed scarf joints from the original open hall. There's a floor with chamfered beams and a stone fireplace adjoining the 17th-century block, likely inserted in the early 17th century. The building is grade II* listed, recognized for the survival of the 14th-century hall described by J.M. Fletcher.