The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a former rectory, now a farmhouse, dating to the late 19th century. It is constructed from granite and elvan rubble with granite dressings, and has dry Delabole slate hipped roofs. Large stone axial and lateral stacks are a prominent feature, with a 20th-century chimney over the rear right-hand gable end. The roof features fish-scale slate bargeboards to three half-hipped ends.

The building’s plan is an irregular arrangement of three rooms deep, with a two-storey entrance porch and stairhall projection to the west-facing entrance front. A study is located to the left of the stairhall, and a parlour to the right, with a dining room behind. The two principal reception rooms and the rear right-hand room have south-facing windows. Behind the study are pantries, and along the rear are service rooms including a small parlour, a servants’ stair, a scullery, and a kitchen. A cellar is situated beneath part of the house.

The exterior presents unaltered elevations. The west entrance front, with an asymmetrical three-bay arrangement, features a projecting two-storey entrance porch, a three-light window to the bay on the left, and a blind stone wall to the right. The porch has a pointed-arched doorway with a hoodmould, a weathered buttress at the far right, a small window to the left of the doorway, a tall stair window above, a small window above the doorway, and fish-scale slates to the half-hipped end of the roof. The south garden front is also asymmetrical, with three bays. It has ground-floor canted bay windows to the central and left-hand bays, and a half-hipped roof with fish-scale tiles over the central bay. It also contains three-light windows. The building has a dressed granite plinth, deliberately irregular granite jambstones, and some openings are spanned by shouldered flat arches with toggled lintels, and relieving arches. There are transomed casement windows.

The interior was not inspected but is reported to retain many original features, including the original stair, and plaster ceiling cornices in the parlour and dining room.