The Old Rectory And Old Rectory Cottage

The Old Rectory and Old Rectory Cottage are a house and cottage, originally a rectory, dating to the early/mid 17th century. The building was remodelled in the early 18th century and extended around 1800. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with dressed quoins, and has a gabled stone slate roof. There are large stone ashlar ridge stacks, and a 20th-century brick stack to the left end.

The original building had a two-unit lobby-entry plan, later extended to a triple-depth plan around 1800. The front facade is two storeys and attic, with a two-window range. A timber lintel over a central blocked door contains a 20th-century light. Timber lintels also cover a 20th-century window to the left. A late 18th-century tripartite sash has been altered by the insertion of mid/late 19th-century French windows to the right, while another covers the first-floor tripartite sashes. There are 19th-century roof dormers. A two-storey rear range, also using similar materials, has a stone ashlar ridge stack. A tall sash window is set in a round-arched stair-light, and a six-panelled door is contained within a mid-19th-century Gothic porch. The rear wall has a three-window range featuring six-pane and tripartite sashes, and a mid-19th-century stone-mullioned bay window. An early 19th-century two-storey range to the left has six-pane sashes and a front outshut, and is attached to a stable range now used as Old Rectory Cottage, with segmental-arched doors and windows.

Inside the front range are early 17th-century stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, early 18th-century bolection-moulded panelled doors, an early 18th-century fireplace with a pulvinated frieze, and a collar-truss roof with butt purlins. To the rear left is mid-18th-century panelling with a dado rail, and winder stairs leading to a small chamber above which has a panelled door to a closet, retaining a 17th-century studded door. The around 1800 extension features six-panelled doors set within panelled reveals, and a quarter-turn staircase with stick balusters within a central, stone-flagged hall. The attics to the rear contain reset 15th-century painted beams, decorated with the emblems of the Lovell, Deincourt, Holland and Poynings families, believed to be from Minster Lovell Hall, dismantled in 1747.