The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house in Rodmarton, initially built as a rectory in 1632 and significantly remodelled and extended in the 1872 by A W Maberley. The original structure is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, with a stone-coped stone slate roof on the 17th-century section and plain tiles on the 19th-century addition. Ashlar is used for ridge and end stacks.

The house originally comprised four rooms. The 17th-century south-facing garden front has two storeys and an attic, arranged as a five-window range. The parlour bay on the left (west) incorporates an inscribed 1632 date and features a chamfered stone-mullioned two-light window above a two-storey canted bay with an embattled parapet. Below, there are rebated hollow-moulded stone-mullioned two-light windows with iron turnbuckles to the casements. To the right is a stone-mullioned two-light window set within a large gabled dormer. Below this are two similar 17th-century mullioned windows, with a tall three-light stone-mullioned and transomed window inserted in 1872. Further to the right are two additional 17th-century mullioned windows, above label moulds over tall 3-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows of 1872. The right gable end has two similar mullioned windows and a 17th-century drip mould. The north elevation, dating to 1872 and built in matching style, incorporates similar windows and an off-centre cross gable with a large four-light stone-mullioned and transomed stair window.

Inside, the 1632 parlour bay retains a 17th-century double ogee-moulded beam and a stop-chamfered first-floor beam. The central bay has a large roll-stopped beam to the ground floor and 17th-century principal rafters with butt purlins. The 1872 extension contains panelled doors, a stone fireplace, and an open-well staircase with barley-twist balusters. The 1632 bay is comparable in design to that at The Close Hotel, Tetbury.