Crossacres the Old Rectory

Crossacres, known as The Old Rectory, is a rectory that has been converted into two private dwellings. It originated in the 16th century but underwent extensive alterations in the late 19th century and mid-20th century. The building features roughcast over rubble, with setback buttresses at the west end and south-west corner, and slate roofs. There is an external stack on the west gable end, a south gable, and a lateral stack on the east side. The structure is L-shaped, with a parallel range of dairy at the east end, which was later raised to two storeys, and a stair turret at the north-east corner.

The south front has two storeys and consists of three bays on the left with a full-height gabled bay, a three-light window on the right, and a gabled four-light window beyond, all of which are from the 20th century. The gable front at the south end features a two-light ogee-headed casement that replaced an earlier entrance to the right of the stack. The raised dairy end includes an oriel window with an ogee light, and there is a 20th-century door with sidelights below. The west front has four bays, with the left return showcasing ogee-headed lights under hoodmoulds.

Internally and externally, the building has been extensively altered, with the only early feature that remains being the buttress. An early to mid-19th century model of The Old Rectory shows the house before these alterations, indicating that the entrance was originally on the north front through a full-height gabled porch flanked by lateral stacks. The model also depicts a three-bay rear elevation, a three-bay south front, and a single-storey dairy and stair turret on the east elevation. This building is a rare example of a vernacular house with a model surviving from the previous century.