The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory, now a house, was built around 1830, with alterations and a cross wing remodelled around 1878. It is constructed of stucco over rubble slate, with a gabled slate roof and rendered brick ridge stacks. The building follows a double-depth plan and is in a Late Regency style.

The garden front, to the left of the cross wing, is two-storey and four windows wide. A veranda, supported by Greek Doric columns and an entablature, runs across the front. The ground floor has flat arches over two tall 12-pane sashes and a French window, with quoin strips to the jambs on the right, and four 12-pane sashes on the first floor. The gable end of the cross wing has a later 19th-century tripartite sash with plate-glass windows above a cornice, over a similar sash. A later 19th-century French window is set within a Greek Doric porch on the rear left side. Both the rear elevation and the original elevation incorporate sashes from around 1830 and the later 19th century.

The porch on the right side of the cross wing features a heraldic cartouche (of Reverend H.G. Morse) set in a plasterwork panel, dated 1878, above a cornice over an eared architrave framing a 6-panelled door.

Inside, ground-floor rooms have moulded cornices and panelled doors. The stair hall to the rear left has a straight-flight staircase with winders, turned balusters with palmed bases and a wreathed handrail. Reverend H.G. Morse was the rector during a period of high-quality restoration to the nearby Church of St. Swithun.