The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house, formerly the rectory for the parish, dating to around 1840 to 1850, with possible earlier elements in the rear service block. It is built of plastered local stone and flint rubble with brick or stone rubble stacks, stone rubble chimney shafts, and Beerstone chimneyshafts topped with Tudor-style terracotta chimneypots. The roof is slate-covered, featuring fleur-de-lys shaped crested ridge tiles. The house is arranged in an L-shape. The main block, facing east, has a double-depth plan with three principal rooms running across the front. The centre room is heated by an axial stack to the right, and each end room has a gable-end stack. The main entrance is situated on the north end, leading into a stair hall. A kitchen block extends at right angles from the south end of the main block, featuring an axial stack. Behind the kitchen is a passage and a dairy or buttery. The property includes a service courtyard with stables adjoining the south end. The architectural style is Tudor Gothic.

The front façade is symmetrical, with three gabled bays. The centre ground floor window is a French window with glazing bars, including a top tier of Tudor arch glazing bars, and a hoodmould. This is flanked by canted bay windows, each with Tudor arch lights, sunken spandrels, hollow-chamfered timber mullions, and original glazing bars. The three first-floor windows have ovolo-moulded mullions with 2-pane sashes in each light, each under a hoodmould. Gablets with ornate bargeboards and finials top these windows. The roof is gable-ended and features shaped bargeboards with finials. The main doorway, in the north end, has a Tudor arch containing a 20th-century door, and is framed by a Tudor-style doorframe with flanking clustered pilasters and a gabled hoodmould. The rear of the main block has a less regular arrangement of windows, some in Tudor style. The service wing includes 19th and 20th-century casements. On the south side of the service wing, at first-floor level, are two 16-pane sashes with small iron balconies. The interior is noted to contain a considerable amount of original joinery and detail.