Rectory Farmhouse And Rectory Cottage

Rectory Farmhouse and Rectory Cottage is a large house with a small attached house, built in the late 17th century for the cottage and around 1740 for the main farmhouse. The buildings are constructed from ashlar and random rubble limestone, featuring ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof. The main farmhouse is two stories high with a cellar and an attic in the rear wing, while the small house is also two stories with a rear wing.

The front of Rectory Farmhouse showcases a fine ashlar facade with four windows that are unevenly spaced. The ground floor features three-centred arched four-pane sash windows with plain keyed architraves and keystones that connect to a moulded string course above. The upper floor has square-headed four-pane sashes with bull-nosed sills and extended keystones over moulded stone eaves coving. A three-centred arched doorway, located between the two left sashes, has a segmental pediment porch supported by shaped brackets and a multi-panel fielded door. The facade is accentuated by corner pilasters and moulded eaves. The hipped roof completes the main house.

To the left, Rectory Cottage has three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds on each floor, along with some 20th-century altered windows to the left. It features a ridge-mounted chimney with a chamfered cap. On the south end, the moulded eaves coving continues above the rubble masonry, and there are 12-pane sashes in plain openings on each floor to the right, along with a tall double-shafted eaves-mounted chimney with a linking cavetto cap. The rear of the buildings displays a mix of sash and mullioned windows, and the gabled wing of Rectory Cottage has a projecting chimney stack and inserted mullioned windows.

Inside Rectory Farmhouse, there is a fine panelled main room with fluted pilasters that divide the bays of fielded panels. A niche with a shell hood is located to the right of the fireplace. The 18th-century staircase features two turned balusters per tread, ramped handrails, and bracketed open strings. The kitchen has a Regency cornice and an oval arch. A tie beam in the roof bears a crudely carved date of 1744. The interior of Rectory Cottage has not been inspected.