The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a house, formerly the rectory, dating to 1753. The north-west front is built with vitreous brick headers and red brick dressings, featuring quoins, vertical strips framing the windows, segmental window heads to the ground floor and centre bay, a moulded plinth and eaves. The gables and rear are of chequer brick, and the south-east front also has a moulded plinth and eaves. The roof is of two spans with old tiles, coped gables, and flanking brick chimneys; the chimney on the left has a moulded cornice. The house has two storeys and an attic, with cellar windows to the left gable.

The north-west front has five bays, the central one slightly projecting, extending above the eaves with a moulded gable forming a small open pediment. The flanking bays feature three-pane sash windows. There is one hipped dormer with a moulded cornice and 20th-century barred wooden casements on either side of the centre. The central bay has two staircase windows, the upper one partly in the gable and round-headed with radiating glazing bars. A four-panelled door is situated in the centre, recessed within a panelled reveal and architrave, with a doorcase of wooden Doric pilasters, a triglyph and roundel frieze, a moulded pediment with dentils.

The south-east front is in a Gothick style with three bays, the central one gabled. Flanking bays contain two-storey canted bay windows with wooden mullions and moulded cornices, transoms to the ground floor, and cast iron lattice glazing with curved bars above the transoms. Dormers have paired leaded casements. The centre bay has a six-panelled door, the upper panels with trefoil heads, flanking single lights, all within a painted stone surround of four semi-octagonal Doric columns on baluster plinths, an entablature with a coved frieze and cornice, and a moulded pediment over the door with a glazed trefoil in the tympanum. The first floor has two ogee windows in moulded frames with impost blocks, shouldered bases, and leaded lights. A roundel with a moulded cinquefoil light is set in the gable.

The interior features a 16th-17th century doorcase on the inner side of the south-east door. The entrance hall has a round arch to an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. A north-east ground floor room contains re-set 16th-17th century panelling, and a north-west room has Regency dado panelling and a chimney piece with flanking arched recesses. A first-floor north-west room has a fine 18th-century wooden fireplace surround with a shouldered architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a dentil cornice; one room contains a Gothick grate.