The Rectory

The Rectory, now a private house, likely began as an early 15th-century building, with significant alterations in the early 17th century and an extension in 1889. The exterior is of cement-rendered walls with a red sandstone string course and raised quoins, set on a chamfered plinth. The roof is of graduated greenslate with coped gables and kneelers, and the chimneys are rendered. The building combines a low two-storey, single-bay fortified vicarage on the left, a central two-storey, two-bay projection from the 19th century, and a three-bay, two-storey range from the 17th century on the right. The fortified vicarage has notably thick walls. The original doorway is obscured by rendering but retains a shouldered arch. A small ground floor slit vent and an upper floor sash window are visible at the rear. The central section features a top-glazed panelled door and sash windows with hoodmoulds. The right section has a 20th-century door and matching windows. A smaller upper-floor window in the central section is likely original. Inside the oldest part of the house is a barrel-vaulted lower chamber with a blocked newel stair. An upper floor room reveals the original steeply-pitched roof line behind its internal walls. The central portion is entirely of 19th-century design, while the interior of the right-hand section includes a Tudor-arched doorway from a probable cross-passage, an inglenook with a stone hood and a heck partition. A garage attached to the right is not considered to be of historical interest.