The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is an early 18th-century rectory, later used as a private house, with 19th-century additions. It is constructed of dressed limestone, with a tiled hipped roof featuring fishscale bands, brick and stone stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape. The north front has two storeys and three windows. A stone classical porch features engaged Composite columns, a round-arched six-panelled door within a surround including a keystone, impost, pulvinated frieze, and arched lights to the sides. A twelve-pane sash window is positioned to the right, with an external lateral stone stack to the left. The first floor has two sixteen-pane sashes and one six-pane sash, and is finished with a moulded stone eaves cornice. A blocked doorway is present on the left return. The rear garden front has three twelve-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves with keystones; the first floor has three six-pane sashes in moulded architraves, and a moulded stone eaves cornice. A gabled dormer is visible on the roof. A wing projecting to the left has a twelve-pane and a six-pane sash window to its right side. The gable end has a late 19th-century two-storey canted bay with two-light casements. A 20th-century lean-to extension is situated to the left side. The right return contains an external stone stack and a gabled projection for the stairs, featuring a two-light casement and a sash window. Inside, a good 18th-century staircase displays three turned balusters per open string tread, and a wide, moulded handrail. The large drawing room contains six-panelled doors in moulded architraves, arched alcoves, window shutters and a reset white marble rococo fireplace surround, which is slated for relocation to Thorne House, Donhead St Andrew. Dressed limestone garden walls are attached to the right return, featuring flat coping swept up to the house and incorporating a six-panelled door. The property ceased to function as a rectory during the 1940s.