Rectory Farm

Rectory Farm is a detached farmhouse dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed, squared and dressed limestone with sandstone quoins, and has a thin stone slate roof and ashlar stacks with moulded cappings. The building follows a ‘T’ shape and includes a cellar beneath the left-hand wing.

The gable end projecting to the left has a double-chamfered, stone-mullioned casement window, with a Phoenix insurance plaque above the first-floor window. A blocked doorway with a timber lintel is located to the left of a ground-floor window. The main body of the house is set back at a right angle to the right, with four bays featuring 2 and 3-light, double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods and horizontal glazing bars. A former front door, originally with a hollow-moulded, basket-headed surround topped by a pulvinated frieze, is now blocked and replaced with a 2-light casement. A 19th-century four-panel front door is located within a lean-to porch in the angle between the wing and the main body. Flat gable-end coping and single and twin gable-end stacks with moulded cappings (one repaired in the 20th century) are present. The interior has not been inspected.