The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house with a 17th-century core, significantly altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. The facade is whitewashed brick laid on rendered plinths, with plain tiled roofs, mostly hipped. Whitewashed rubblestone is used on the rear of the central range. The entrance front is set at a right angle to the road. The house is two storeys and has an attic, marked by a plat band around the ground floor. Two flat-roofed attic dormers are present. The first floor has three windows, featuring 16-pane sash windows with thin margin lights. A tripartite window is located on the ground floor. A single-storey porch, at the junction of two building ranges and on the right, has a canted bay with 16-pane sash windows and margin lights on splayed sides. The main entrance is a late 18th-century door consisting of six fielded panels, topped with an ogee intersecting tracery fanlight. It is framed by an open pediment supported by Doric columns and dosserets, with diamond pattern intersecting mouldings on the soffits and dosserets. The right-hand return front has a two-window range to the left, with sashes to the ground floor containing eight panes and narrow margin lights, and twelve-pane windows to the first floor. A gable is set back to the right. On this return, a leaded, cambered-head window is found on the first floor, alongside a plain window below. 19th and 20th-century extensions are present to the right, featuring leaded casement windows. The left-hand return front, facing the lane, has two sash windows under gables on the first floor to the right, with two windows below.