Rectory Farmhouse

Rectory Farmhouse is a detached house dating from the mid-17th century. It is built of English bond brick on a plinth of flint and stone, topped with a tiled roof featuring central grouped brick stacks. The house has a lobby entry plan and is two stories high with a three-window front. A central gabled brick porch displays a four-centred arch, and the inner doorway features a four-centred stone arched opening with the original oak studded door. Flanking the porch are four-light mullion and transomed windows with drip moulds. On the first floor, there is a central two-light ovolo-mullioned window with four-light ovolo-mullioned windows on either side.

The left side of the house has four-light mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor with drip moulds, while the first floor features a four-light ovolo-mullioned window with a drip mould, and the attic has a three-light ovolo-mullioned window. A slightly later outshut at the rear has a straight joint, with a wooden two-light casement on the ground floor and a two-light chamfered mullioned window with a drip mould on the first floor. The rear also includes a central projecting stair turret with two-light ovolo-mullioned windows.

The interior was not accessible during the survey in August 1984, but it was recorded by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. The hall to the left of the lobby features a stone floor, late 17th-century panelling, and a moulded stone four-centred-arched fireplace. The parlour to the right also has a four-centred-arched fireplace. An ovolo and cyma-moulded oak doorcase leads to the rear stairs, which feature oak newel stairs with turned balusters. Notably, the bedrooms contain particularly fine carved stone four-centred-arch fireplaces with decorated surrounds and overmantels, flanked by Ionic columns and strapwork decoration above. A small closet is located between the bedrooms. The five-bay roof has a grouped stack in the centre bay, a tie-beam with straight collars, and butt purlins.