Rectory And Adjoining Garden Walls

The Rectory at Kilkhampton is a mid-19th century house, likely designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and possibly built around 1858. It incorporates earlier elements, including 17th-century rear outshuts. The main part of the house is a two-storey, three-bay symmetrical structure with a whitewashed, roughcast exterior, a hipped slate roof, and brick chimneys. A rear outshut is built of slatestone rubble with slate catslide roofs.

The front features a porch with a cornice supported on octagonal timber pillars, and a double front door with three flush panels under a fanlight. Ground floor windows are pairs of eight-pane sashes within smooth, segmentally-headed architraves, and first-floor windows are similar sashes. A single bay was later added to the left. A modillion cornice overhangs the eaves.

Inside, the entrance leads to a hall and an archway to a stair hall. The geometrical staircase has stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, and the stairwell ceiling has a rudimentary plaster groin vault. Ground floor rooms on the right have shutters; one room features a tall, round-arched recess with fluted engaged columns. Six-panel doors lead to three front first-floor rooms, and an eight-panelled door opens to a rear bedroom. A servants’ stair is located at the rear. The rear right outshut contains a large brick chimney and a granite fireplace lintel with moulded spandrels. The rear left outshut, now a storage area, has partition walls constructed with studwork and brick nogging.

Garden walls, made of cob on stone with slate coping, extend south-east from the south-east corner of the main range and north from the rear right outshut. The northern garden wall includes a round-headed archway and doorframe, of polyphant stone, said to have originated at Stowe in 1679.