The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house dating from around 1820, with extensions added circa 1860-70. It is constructed of rendered stone and Hamstone ashlar, with slate hipped roofs and deep eaves. The house has axial stacks with bracketed cornices.

The original early 19th century section on the left (west) consists of two principal front rooms, with the left-hand room combined with the room behind and a stairhall to the rear centre and right. Originally, the main entrance was on the right side, with a service wing to the rear left. A large cross-wing was added circa 1860-70 to the right side, containing a drawing room at the front and a billiard room and entrance hall with a rear doorway at the back. In the 20th century, the rear service wing was removed and a conservatory was added on the left side.

The two-storey south front has two bays on the original section, which project forward with small gables containing moulded bargeboards with pierced pendants. These bays have 20-pane French casements on the ground floor and 16-pane sashes above, with a string course at first-floor cill level. The circa 1860-70 wing on the right has a moulded string course and eaves cornice, with eared window architraves and a canted bay window on the ground floor. All windows in this section are sashes with margin panes. The east return has three bays with similar first-floor windows and French windows on the ground floor, also with margin panes, moulded architraves, consoles, and cornices. A veranda at the rear of the east wing is supported by timber posts and features glazed double doors. The rear elevation of the original house mirrors the front, with cross mullion-transom windows featuring glazing bars and a small 20th-century addition at centre of the ground floor.

Inside, the original 19th-century joinery remains. An early 19th-century open-well staircase has an open string, shaped tread ends, stick balusters, and a veneered mahogany handrail. Marble fireplaces are present, including one in the study with a reeded architrave, roundels, and a cast-iron grate with a cable-mould architrave. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices are also present. The hall features encaustic floor tiles with a Greek key pattern and a guilloche border.