The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house dating to the 17th century, with alterations from the 19th century. It is constructed of rubble with stone dressings, quoins, copings, and a pantile roof. The house is two storeys high, with three windows on the ground floor and five windows on the upper floor. The ground floor windows include one three-light and two four-light ovolo mullion windows, each with a dripstone and 19th-century casements. The upper floor has three three-light 19th-century wood casements set within original openings, plus two further three-light ovolo mullion windows with 19th-century casements. A probable 19th-century doorway, located below the second upper window from the left, features a four-centred arch with a single chamfer and a 20th-century plank door with a glazed panel. Two stone stacks and one brick stack are present. A 20th-century outshut to the rear conceals a reset Decorated niche, which includes cusping and a chamfered respond. This niche was likely inserted in the 19th century when the house was used as a nunnery. Inside, a large inglenook fireplace is found in the ground floor room on the left, featuring a stop-chamfered beam with run-out stops and a bread oven. Various chamfered beams are visible throughout the other rooms. A first-floor corridor has segmental arched doorways with chamfered jambs at either end, along with a panelled partition wall containing nuns’ sliding spy holes.