Rectory Farmhouse

Rectory Farmhouse, now a farmhouse, was originally built in the early 17th century and subsequently altered. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with stone slate roofs. The building has an H-plan, with two wings flanking a central range, and features two and a half storeys. The front has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement. The cross-wings have late 18th or early 19th century tripartite Gothic glazing bar sash windows with slender wooden colonettes on the ground and first floors, and casements in a matching style to the attics, all with dripmoulds. The first floor of the main range also has mid-19th century casements with dripmoulds. A blocked doorway in the main range’s centre is flanked by casements. A mid-19th century two-storey gabled porch projects from the angle of the left cross-wing, with a segmental-headed six-paned sash window above a segmental-headed six-panel door. A small ridge stack is located on the right cross-wing, with a more prominent end stack to the rear gable. At the rear, a short gabled range, open to the ground floor and supported on a square chamfered stone column, is attached to the right cross-wing. The left return of the left cross-wing has a three-light ovalo-mullioned window with a dripmould on each floor. Inside, a semi-winder staircase is located in the hall of the main range, featuring stick balusters and an open string. The left gabled wing contains boxed cross beams, heavy square joists, and a chamfered Tudor-arched stone fireplace on the ground floor. A 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed addition attached to the rear of the rear left range is not considered of special architectural interest. The gable end of the main range incorporates a 2-light mullion window to the attic and a mullioned and transomed window to the first floor, both with dripmoulds, alongside a 20th-century canted bay projection. A lower range attached at right angles to the main range has a mullioned and transomed window with a dripmould, and a ridge stack with dripstone and three attached and rebated shafts with moulded capping.