The Old Rectory, With Attached Garden Walls And Piers To South

The Old Rectory, now a house with attached garden walls and piers to the south, is a former rectory that is believed to date back to 1609, although it has been significantly altered and rebuilt in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The house features a limestone ashlar front facing south, while the rest is constructed from coursed rubble. It has a 20th-century concrete tile roof with stone gable copings. There is an ashlar chimney at the center and an external chimney to the right, with its shaft rebuilt in brick in the 20th century. The building is L-shaped, two storeys high with an attic, and has five irregular bays. It has a moulded plinth, with the first floor featuring boxed 3-pane sash windows. The ground floor includes two large tripartite sashes, one of which dates from around 1900, off-centre double half-glazed doors, and a 20th-century door with a rectangular fanlight to the left. An attic casement window is located in the left gable. The rear of the house has three gabled bays with sash windows on the first floor and 20th-century round windows flanking a 20th-century arched doorway. There is a 20th-century wooden Doric porch. A later wing extends to the right with a flat-roofed extension.

Attached to either side of the south front are early 19th-century garden walls, which extend approximately 25 meters to the south. The left wall is entirely made of brick, while the right wall is brick-faced on the garden side but backed with coursed rubble limestone. Both walls are constructed with brick laid in English garden wall bond, featuring courses of blue headers and red stretchers, and have flat stone coping. The end piers are made of ashlar with tented caps, and both walls have arched gateways.