Old Rectory Cottage

Old Rectory Cottage is an early 17th-century rectory, later adapted for use as a house, with subsequent additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed and banded limestone and marl stone rubble, with a stone slate roof featuring coped verges and a ball finial to the south-east gable end of the main range. The building is arranged in a basic L-plan, comprising a main range aligned north-west to south-east, with a short gabled range projecting at right angles to the north-east. It has two storeys and an attic.

The south-west side has three sections, with a straight joint immediately to the right of a gabled full dormer containing a two-light chamfered mullion window to its left. Another dormer window is present on the line of the second ridge stack from the left. Each floor below the dormer has a three-light cavetto-moulded mullion window. Similar windows are present to the centre and right, though the centre windows are chamfered. All windows have dripstones, and most retain leaded lights, some of which are likely original. An integral end stack is located to the left, and the ridge stacks have rendered bases with dripstones and red brick shafts. The right gable end has a four-light leaded casement on the ground floor, a three-light window to the first floor, and a two-light cavetto-moulded mullion window with a dripstone to the attic. A 19th-century lean-to is attached to the left gable end.

The north-east side of the main range features two widely spaced three-light chamfered mullion windows with dripstones on each floor. A small rectangular window sits on the ground floor to the left of the straight joint, with a narrow rectangular window to the right. A gabled eaves dormer with a leaded latticed casement is positioned above the left windows. Several of the mullion windows retain original leaded glazing. A late 19th or early 20th-century two-storey gabled porch is located in the angle with the projecting range, which has a two-light cavetto-moulded capping. The interior of the main range reveals chamfered ceiling beams to the ground- and first-floor rooms. A massive chimney breast and inglenook fireplace, complete with a chamfered wood lintel, are situated around the centre stack, alongside a spice cupboard on the north-west wall. The first floor has wide floorboards, and the roof is a double-butt purlin roof in six bays (including divisions formed by stacks) with tie beam trusses. The projecting range includes stone spiral steps leading down to a barrel-vaulted stone cellar, which is lit by a two-light mullion window. The building ceased to function as the rectory around 1688 with the construction of a new rectory (listed under Kingham House).