The Rectory

The Rectory is a house dating back to the 17th century, with possible earlier origins, and featuring alterations from the early 19th century, with a possible 18th-century house refaced on the north end. The building is constructed of rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. It is two storeys and has an attic. The north end has two parallel gables facing west, with an end wall stack to the right gable, and a gabled rear range with a ridge stack. The north end has overhanging boarded eaves with shaped purlin ends. Raised quoins and raised window surrounds are present. There are two attic slits. The building has three 12-pane sash windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, two on each side of a Roman Doric ashlar porch and door, which has two fielded lower panels and is glazed above. A painting from around 1780 depicts similar windows and a porch, but with a parapet above, which ramped up to a higher centre. The rear of the house has a tall projecting wing to the left with a later 19th-century two-storey square bay. The south end, set back, has two gables, ridge and south end stacks. The left gable is from the early 19th century, and features boarded eaves and an attic pointed slit. It has a tripartite 4-12-4-pane sash window in a stone surround, and a glazed conservatory on the ground floor with a 19th-century inner glazed door. Adjoining this is a circa 18th-century pedimented stone porch, with a window to the front, doors to each side, and an inner six-panel door, four panels glazed. Above the door is a casement. The right gable has 17th-century two-light windows with ovolo moulding, one with a hoodmould to the attic, two to the first floor with a continuous hoodmould, and two ground floor 18th-century eight-pane sashes in moulded architraves with cornices on brackets. The rear of this range has a wallface chimney gable to the left, one first-floor two-light recessed chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould, and a ground-floor lean-to. A bell-turret is on the roof slope to the right, and there is a projecting wing to the right with an end wall stack and a lean-to. Sash windows to the south wall include 12-pane windows to the first floor and a pair of 8-pane windows below. To the south of the house is a two-storey stable from the 18th century, with upper two-light and two Tudor-arched openings. There is a ground-floor timber lintel entry, a door in a chamfered doorcase, a six-pane window, another timber lintel entry, and another six-pane window. Inside the house, there are heavy beams to the south end, a massive bressumer between the south east rear wall and lean-to, Regency-style doors, fireplaces and plaster mouldings. One rear room at the north end retains complete mid-Victorian decoration.