The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house largely dating from the 16th century, with extensions built in the 17th and 19th centuries. The house has a timber-frame core, now clad in whitewashed brick on sandstone rubble plinths. The upper parts are tile hung, with a fishscale pattern in the centre. It has tile roofs with ridge crests. The house is arranged in an H-shape with projecting gable-ended wings. It is two storeys high and has stacks on the left and right return fronts, and further stacks to the rear. There are brick dentil bands above the ground floor of the wings. Windows are mostly leaded casements, with a three-light window to the first floor and a square, through-eaves, gabled oriel window on four braces in the centre. There is a one-light window to the left-hand wing and a three-light window to the right above two- and three-light ground floor windows. A large three-light window with shutters is located on the ground floor of the centre range, to the left. The front door consists of six panels, with the top two glazed, under a flat hood. The right-hand return front features two ground floor square bay windows, some coursed Bargate-stone cladding, and club tile hanging on the first floor. The rear of the house exposes the timber frame to the first floor on the left. A 20th-century brick and tile-hung wing adjoins the right side. A single-storey link connects the house to a nearby structure and a rebuilt crow-stepped stack is located in the centre.