The Old Rectory, with boundary walls

The Old Rectory, formerly nos. 1, 1A, and 2, is now a dwelling. It served as the rectory for St. George Reforne and was later converted into a hotel before being converted to dwellings in 1991. The building contains 18th-century elements, notably the symmetrical south-east front, enlarged and remodelled in 1825. It is constructed with rendered and scribed walls and has an asbestos-cement slate roof. The structure is a long, compact hipped block set upon a high retaining terrace on the north side, two stories high with a partial basement.

The south-east front has a three-bay central section and a five-windowed pattern overall. Most windows are 16-pane sashes, although there are 20th-century steel casements in the ground-floor bays one and two, and 12-pane sashes in bays five and six. Some original glass remains in the first-floor windows. A panelled door with fanlight is recessed within a stone-cheeked porch with a flat roof, and a mid-height stair window is also visible; a 20th-century door is located at the head of an intrusive stair flight. There are two end and one gable stack.

The north-east front also has six windows, with 16-pane sashes in bays one, three, four, and six, and blind openings in bays two and five. The ground storey has various altered windows, including an arched light to bay five with a plain overlight leading to a 20th-century door. A single-story addition is situated behind stepped gable walls and at the west end. The main block has a moulded stone or rendered cornice with an ovolo finish, upon which a square-edged lead gutter serves as a blocking course.

The interior was not inspected.

To the south-west, attached to the end gable wall of No 1, is a wall made of cut blocks featuring a saddle-back parapet forming crenellations, rising approximately 1.5 meters. This wall returns after an opening, maintaining a height of around 1 meter across the property’s frontage before meeting a range of 20th-century garages. A similar wall runs along the top of a retaining wall on the far side of the garages, at an acute angle, mirroring the detail of the first stretch. These walls play a significant role in defining the historical site within the surrounding townscape. Originally built as the Rectory to St. George, Reforne, it was enlarged to the north-east in the early 19th century, and its location on the scarp slope above Fortuneswell is dramatic. The site was formerly bounded to the south by the Merchants' Railway.