Little Rectory Malet House The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory, now divided into three houses, was largely rebuilt between 1815 and 1820 for Reverend M. Wyatt, incorporating a core believed to date back to the 16th century. It is constructed of roughcast, ashlar, and rubble stone, with stone-tiled roofs, coped gables, and diagonal end and ridge stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan, with extensions, in a Tudor style. It is two storeys and has an attic.

The south front has a three-window range, with a later extension to the right featuring a low-pitched slate roof. The central projecting gable has windows set in ashlar surrounds. The centre window is a large two-light wooden mullion and transom window with small-paned lights, and a deep hoodmould with label stops. To the left, a four-pane window is situated above a glazed door with a traceried overlight in a Tudor-arched surround. Gothic panelled shutters are present. The later right-side extension incorporates wooden cross windows on both floors, with a large ground floor window that mirrors the centre window’s hoodmould and detailing.

The west front features a coped gable end to the right with a nine-pane window above a later canted bay with a parapet and cross windows. To the left, a range dating from approximately 1815 and subsequent additions fill the angle of the L-plan, with two storeys, a parapet, and an upper string course. The upper floor is ashlar, with two mid-19th century oriels featuring stone mullion and transom lights. The roughcast ground floor has three Tudor-arched windows with 20 panes each. An entrance tower, also roughcast with an upper string course and parapet, is situated to the left, with a long second-floor timber cross window, a smaller first-floor timber cross window, and a Tudor-arched doorway on the ground floor, all in chamfered surrounds.

The original rear wing, behind the main building, has two attic dormers to the west and a three-storey, two-window range to the east, with six-pane upper lights, nine-pane to the first floor, one twelve-pane ground floor window, and a glazed door. A low, cross-gabled range projects at the north end, with a diagonal stack and a 19th-century two-light upper window and four-light ground floor window, both with hoodmoulds to the east.

Internally, features from the 1815-1820 period include a panelled-ceiling entrance hall with an M. Wyatt monogram, a fine cantilevered stone staircase with twisted iron balusters, and south rooms with Tudor-style panelled ceilings and undercut foliage borders. The house may have been rebuilt to designs by a relative of M. Wyatt who was also an architect.