The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house, dating from the 1820s, originally the Rectory of Trevalga. It is constructed of rendered stucco with chamfered quoins, and has a slate roof with hipped ends and a rendered brick end stack. The building has curtain walls, probably from the 19th century, which mask detached service outbuildings. The garden front, which is also the primary elevation, faces northwest, designed to take advantage of views towards the sea.

The house was originally planned with two reception rooms on the front elevation, with the larger room on the right, both heated by end stacks. The entrance is centrally located on the southwest side elevation, leading to a lobby and central stair hall. The original layout included a possible service room at the rear right overlooking the garden, a central rear stair, and potentially a study to the rear left.

The front elevation is symmetrical with a three-window facade. The ground floor features two-centred arched openings with hood moulds, chamfered quoins, and an unmoulded string course above. There are two 16-pane horned sash windows on the ground floor, and three similar sashes above, likely replacements for earlier windows that had two-centred arched heads and intersecting glazing bars. A central glazed door was inserted in a window opening in the northwest front elevation during the mid-20th century.

The curtain walls include blocked two-centred arched openings and have been remodelled in the 20th century. A gatehouse door leads to the rectory entrance, and a garage door has been fitted into the gable end. Behind the curtain wall is a single-story outbuilding, likely originally a coach house and stables, with a dairy and wash house beyond.

Inside, the front reception room on the right boasts an ornate moulded early 19th century plaster cornice with a floral trail. The smaller reception room on the front left has a simpler plaster cornice with multiple roll moulding, and reveals of the windows are moulded; remnants of panelled shutters remain. An open string stair with stick balusters and a mahogany rail serves the upper floors.