The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating from 1829 by Thomas Strong of Box, with extensions added in a matching style in 1869. The north and west facades are built of ashlar, the rear is red brick, and the roofs are slate with coped gables and ashlar Tudor-style stacks. It is a two-story building in a Tudor-style, featuring Tudor-arched mullion windows above and mullion-and-transom windows below, with dripcourses, pendant hoodmoulds with lively carved head stops, parapets, and gable finials.

The north front has a gable on each side; the one to the left was added in 1869. The original front is in an L-shape. The main range has two windows, with an east stack and two two-light mullion windows with Tudor-arched heads above. Below is a one three-light mullion-and-transom window to the left, and a Tudor-arched door within a projecting embattled porch in the angle to the gable. The porch features angle buttresses, finials, battlements, a Tudor-arched doorway with carved spandrels, and panelling with a carved phoenix crest above. The gable to the right has a raked parapet, an apex quatrefoil with a bull's-head crest, a first-floor Tudor-arched niche, and a projecting ground floor with a parapet and a two-light mullion-and-transom window. To the left of the two-window main range is a slightly recessed section with a similar one window, an east stack, and two-light windows on each floor. The 1869 addition to the left has a quatrefoil with an arrow crest, a first-floor Tudor-arched niche, and a ground-floor two-light window. The east side is plain with three windows and is embattled.

The west front features an embattled parapet, an advanced gable to the right, and a four-shaft axial ridge stack. The left section has a two-light window above and an advanced embattled ground floor with a three-light window between Tudor-arched blank panels. The date "1829" is carved into the parapet. The gable has a first-floor two-light window with a hoodmould and a ground-floor two-light window with a dripcourse and pendant hoodmould.

The red brick rear has ashlar dressings, an embattled parapet, flush quoins, a dripcourse, and various mullion windows.

The interior is reported to contain much reused 16th and 17th century woodwork, including panelling, doors, and stair newel, along with encaustic tiles from Bradenstoke Priory.

The rectory was originally built for Rev G.A. Biedermann, and extended for Rev W.E. Elwell. Architectural plans and specifications by Thomas Strong are held within the Wiltshire Record Office (D/11/61).