Rectory House

Rectory House is a house built around 1706 for Walter Tyrell, who was High Sheriff of Berkshire. A 16th-century wing at the rear was remodelled in the early 18th century. The house is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof and stone stacks finished in rendered brick. It is of double-depth plan and in an Early Georgian style.

The main front is two storeys and attic, with three bays. An early 19th-century doorway features a semi-circular arch over a six-panelled door with a fanlight and carved brackets to a gabled hood. Early 19th-century sash windows have beaded and keyed ashlar architraves. A moulded plinth course and raised chamfered quoins are also present. A raking dormer with a horizontal sliding sash window is visible. The roof is hipped, with end stacks. The left side has two roughcast canted bays dating from around 1900, with 20th-century horned sashes.

The rear elevation shows keyed flat stone arches to blocked windows and two early 19th-century sashes; an early 20th-century brick and tile lean-to adjoins the original rear porch, which has a moulded cornice.

Inside, there are panelled shutters, early 19th-century six-panelled and early 18th-century three-panelled doors in moulded architraves, and one ribbed door in the attic. Rooms to the left of the front door contain early 19th-century fireplaces. The entrance hall has bolection-moulded panelling from around 1706, and a keyed semi-circular arch with moulded imposts and panelled pilasters leading to the staircase. The dog-leg staircase, with a landing, has barley sugar balusters on a closed string, and has been reset to the right side of the hall; fielded panelling is obscured by reset stairs and an inserted partition wall to the left. A quarter-turn back staircase with winders has turned balusters on a closed string. Bolection-moulded panelling is found on the first-floor landing. The roof is of collar-truss construction.

To the rear right is a late 16th-century one-storey and attic, two-window range, remodelled in the late 19th century. This section is built of random limestone rubble with a gabled Welsh slate roof. Its left side wall had a two-light stone mullioned window with a cavetto-moulded design, early 18th-century casements, and an outshut joined to the main house with an early 18th-century two-light cross window. The right side wall features timber lintels over 19th-century doors and casements, and a late 16th-century one-light chamfered window. The front wall has a late 19th-century three-light casement, a two-light wood-mullioned chamfered window, and a gable end stack to the rear. The interior of this wing contains a 20th-century bressumer over an open fireplace, a late 16th-century twelve-panelled door, a late 16th-century stone charcoal burning stove with beaded four-centred arches to the flues, late 16th-century floorboards on the first floor, and a late 19th-century roof.