The Old Rectory And Gates Immediately To South West

The Old Rectory, located in Northlew, is a house that was formerly used as a rectory, dating from around the mid-19th century. The building features rendered walls and a gable-ended slate roof, which has moulded coping stones and shaped kneelers at the gables, along with small brackets at the eaves. There are two truncated rendered gable end stacks that slightly project, with weathered set-offs, and one axial stack at the rear wing.

The layout includes two principal rooms facing the garden front, with the entrance located behind and stairs in a small wing parallel to the front. There is also a service wing at the rear of the right-hand end. The design is in the Tudor Gothic style and the house is two storeys high.

The symmetrical garden front has three windows on the first floor, all in chamfered openings. The windows consist of two-light sashes on the right and left, with a narrow single-light sash in the centre, all set in ovolo-moulded frames. On the ground floor, there are two windows in slightly projecting bays with chamfered corners and moulded cornices; these feature three-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullions with high transoms. A weathered string course at the first floor level breaks forward around the bays and continues around the other elevations.

The entrance is located in the right-hand side wall and features a moulded four-centred stone doorway with glazed double doors, and above the doorway is a two-light 19th-century sash under a gable. The rear service wing to the right has two windows.

Inside, the property retains much of its 19th-century joinery, including a staircase with chamfered stick balusters and square newels topped with ball finials. The property also includes elaborate tall wrought iron gates leading to the courtyard on the south-west side of the house.