The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a late 17th-century rectory, altered in the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries and now a private house. It is constructed of English bond brick with stone quoins, and has a tiled roof with gable end brick stacks. The building is arranged in an 'L' shape. The main two-storey, five-window front features sash windows. A chequered flint and stone plinth runs along the base. The central entrance has a half-glazed latticed door within panelled reveals, flanked by two 12-pane flush sashes with wedge lintels and keystones. The first floor has five 4-pane sashes. There are coped verges to the roof, with three flat-headed dormers containing 20th-century casements. A single-storey flint and stone extension is attached to the right, featuring casements and a hipped tiled roof. The right return has a 4-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement on both the ground and first floors, and a 20th-century door. The left return has a chequered flint and stone wall with a 4-pane sash window to the first floor. A mid-19th-century rear wing incorporates 4-pane and 8-pane sashes, and a two-storey, half-octagonal bay constructed of Flemish bond brick with 4-pane sashes and French windows with blind boxes. A parallel range to the rear’s left side has three 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements on the ground floor, a 6-panelled door, and a tile-hung first-floor addition to a former outshut, also with 2-light casements. A 19th-century arched stair window with lattice and margin-pane glazing is also present. The interior features 6-panelled doors within moulded architraves with rosettes, a mid-19th-century staircase with stick balusters and a continuous moulded and wreathed handrail, 6-fielded panel doors, plaster ceiling cornices, a round-arched opening in the entrance hall, and chamfered beams to the rear. The building ceased to be used as a rectory during the 1970s.