The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house, originally built as the rectory for the parish, dating to 1670 and constructed for Dr. Tompkins, the rector. It was altered and enlarged in 1863, with a north-east wing added around 1930. The original building is constructed of red and vitreous brick, with an irregular bond. The south-east front has a first-floor band course. Subsequent alterations are in red brick. The roof is tiled, and there are rebuilt brick chimneys flanking the main ridge, with a tall brick stack featuring a pilaster and offset head to the left gable of the north-west front. Initially, the house had an H-plan with short gabled side wings; the north-west front originally had a lean-to to the centre part, which has since been altered. The north-east end is irregular, featuring a gabled staircase bay on the north side and 19th and 20th century extensions. The house is two storeys and has an attic, with five 17th-century bays. The north-west front has a staircase bay and a gabled bay immediately to the right, both featuring leaded cross casements to the ground floor, and paired and single leaded casements above. The centre bays incorporate 19th-century cross windows with stone mullions and transoms to the ground floor, flanking a porch. Three gabled dormers with paired casements, partly leaded, are above. The central 19th-century porch has shaped bargeboards to the gable, a three-light cusped stone window with a carved motto panel and arched string above, and a moulded stone doorway with a brick arch. A bay to the right includes a rebuilt 19th-century gable, a large 19th-century three-light traceried stone window, and a low 20th-century boarded door. The south-east front has 19th-century bay windows to the side wings; the left wing is canted and full height, with stone mullion and transom windows. Other bays have 20th-century paired wooden casements, with ground-floor French doors, and rendered hoodmoulds. A moulded stone or render string runs below the eaves. The interior has been much altered.