Porlock Rectory And Walls Enclosing Garden On North Front

This is a Rectory dating from the 16th century, significantly altered and remodelled in the early 18th century, with a further extension added in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of red sandstone rubble, some of which was once rendered, with quoins. It has a steeply pitched slate roof, a moulded cornice, and external stone stacks on the right gable end, with tall brick stacks rising from the eaves. The original layout is unclear, but it appears to have started as a three-room structure with a two-room addition. The Rectory has two storeys and an attic, with seven bays overall. The projecting 19th-century addition to the left features segmental-headed tripartite sash windows. The main block has three dormers and twelve-pane sash windows in moulded surrounds with lintels. A central flat-roofed porch has two twelve-pane windows and half-glazed doors. Inside, the main entrance leads to an original hall with a nine-panel compartment ceiling, interrupted by the insertion of an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, a cut string, and a panelled dado. Rooms to the left are largely featureless, while a room to the right retains early to mid-18th century panelling. A red sandstone garden wall, approximately two metres high, adjoins the property to the west, with a slate coping and an arched doorway constructed of rubble voussoirs.