The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a parsonage house, dating from around 1700, with extensions from around 1847 and later alterations. The older front section is constructed of freestone, while the newer parts are built of cut and squared rubble. It features a wooden modillion eaves cornice and a hipped roof of Cotswold stone. The building retains elements of a cross-passage plan from a pre-1700 structure.

It forms an L-shape, with a taller, gabled wing on the right-hand side, added around 1847. This later wing replicates the details of the earlier circa 1700 block on its front face. Large ashlar chimneys rise from the roof. The house has two storeys and attics, with chamfered quoins and 2:1 hipped dormers featuring leaded lights. It has a 5:1 window arrangement, with bull-nose cills, moulded architraves and cross mullions exhibiting edge hollow chamfers. There is some indication that the central ground floor window may have originally been a doorway. An arched doorway is located to the right of the main block, featuring panelled piers, brackets, moulded imposts, and an arched fanlight with a triple keystone. A panelled door sits behind it. The north-facing return is constructed of rubble with flat-arched glazing-bar sashes. The south return includes a two-storey, two-bay mid-19th century extension. The rear of the house is irregular and incorporates various 20th-century additions and a shallow gable above the staircase.

The interior of the circa 1700 block was extended northwards with a kitchen wing, which appears to have replaced a timber-framed structure around 1847. At the same time, an extension was added to the west, creating a corridor and stair-hall connecting with the southwest wing and providing access to the southeast room. This extension possibly incorporates what may have been an earlier stair turret, although its position behind the main circa 1700 chimney stack would have made stair communication difficult; an alternative location would have been within the cross-passage. The southeast room contains raised and fielded panelling from around 1700, and a moulded stone fireplace with flattened bolection moulding framed by pilasters with Greek-fret ornament. An adjacent room features reused 17th-century panelling (reputedly derived from church pews removed in 1869), and a similar fireplace to the southwest room. The roof structure is of interest, constructed from older timbers and including a massive ridge supported by a brace from the collar of the central truss. This suggests a possible development of a timber-framed house, one side of which was upgraded around 1700 to a proper parsonage house, potentially leaving the stairs in the surviving portion. The original north wing was cleared around 1847 and replaced with the present wing, with the addition of the stair corridor to the west, possibly reusing an earlier rear wing.