Rectory Farmhouse

Rectory Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating to 1629, as indicated by a datestone above the entrance. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled stone slate roof, featuring a stone rendered ridge stack and a similar gable end stack to the left wing. The building follows an L-shaped plan. It has two storeys and an attic, with a four-window front. The main entrance is framed by a label mould over a moulded stone architrave with sunk spandrels, and is fitted with a 18th-century four-panelled door. The windows are also topped with label moulds, framing ovolo-moulded stone mullioned round-headed windows of one, two, and four lights, each with sunk spandrels. Two 20th-century gabled roof dormers have been added to the roof.

The front left wing, of two window ranges, has two similar one-light windows and a three-storey canted bay window. The bay window features similar mullioned windows and rendered over timber-framed upper storey. Other windows include similar round-headed and square-headed mullioned windows. There are two early 17th-century studded doors with chamfered arched surrounds to the left side and rear of the building. Further service ranges dating to the 18th and mid-19th centuries are built of similar materials to the right.

Inside the left wing, a central timber-framed partition and winder stairs are set within a timber frame featuring moulded arched doorframes. The front room contains a moulded stone fireplace, a moulded plaster cornice, and plasterwork with pomegranate trails on the soffit of the beam. Similar plasterwork is found in the front room on the first floor, along with chamfered beams. To the right of the entrance hall, two rooms are arranged around a central lobby-entry with a newel staircase. The room to the right has a chamfered beam and an open fireplace with a hollow-chamfered wood bressumer and stone jambs, while the room to the left has an ogee-moulded beam and a moulded stone fireplace with sunk spandrels. A former buttery and pantry to the rear left features a moulded arched doorframe.

The farmhouse stands on a moated site south of the Church of St. Denys and represents a good example of an unaltered early 17th-century house.