The Old Rectory And Attached Outbuilding

The Old Rectory and attached outbuilding is a house, originally a rectory, largely rebuilt in the early 18th century, with elements dating back to the 17th century. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with a slate roof, and has rendered end stacks. The building is L-shaped. The main south-facing elevation, overlooking the garden, has four windows per floor. A 20th-century glazed door is centrally located within a gabled brick porch, rendered and dressed with limestone. The porch doorway features a round-arched head, a moulded keyblock, imposts and jambs, and a moulded stone-coped stepped gable with a stone cross at the apex, inscribed with “PASTORI” above the door. A 20th-century replacement window occupies the far left of the ground floor, with a wood lintel. Other ground floor windows are also 20th-century replacements, having replaced 12-pane sashes, and are topped with wood lintels. The first floor has similar replacement windows with flat-arched heads, and the attic floor has further replacements with flat-arched heads. The building has a plinth, stepped stone eaves, and stone-coped gables with kneelers. A Phoenix fire insurance plaque is located below a first-floor window to the right of centre, and a stone bears a long Latin inscription, now worn and partially obscured by creeper, beginning "OMNIBUS”. A lower wing extends to the right and to the rear, with a 20th-century replacement window to the ground floor, and another to the first floor, both replacing original sashes and set within wood lintels. An attached outbuilding projects to the extreme right, topped with a pantile roof and bearing a datestone inscribed "EB/1790" on an ironstone-coped gable; formerly a stable, it is now a garage. Internally, there is a chamfered bressumer, an open fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and bressumer, and a spacious open-well staircase with simple carved tread-ends, stick balusters, and a ramped handrail. The dining room features panelling to the window wall, a panelled dado to one end wall, and a row of fitted glazed cupboards along an inner wall, with a broken pediment above the central cupboard. A room on the upper floor has a late 18th-century wood fireplace surround flanked by glazed fitted cupboards. The Old Rectory was rebuilt by Edward Bayley, who served as Rector from 1775 to 1813.