Rectory Farmhouse

Rectory Farmhouse is a house dating from the 17th century, which incorporates parts of an earlier structure. It features an 18th-century outshut, an early 19th-century extension on the right, and a later 19th-century extension at the rear that was raised in the 20th century. The building is constructed of dressed stone, some of which is re-used, with a timber-framed first floor encased in brick. It has been rendered and pebble-dashed in 1954, topped with a pantile roof and brick stacks.

The house is two stories tall and has a three-window front, with a single-storey extension to the right. The entrance is a 20th-century board door located to the left of center, beneath an overlight. The windows are mostly three-light, small-pane horizontal sliding sashes, except for the ground floor on the right, which features a 20th-century three-light replacement. There are stacks at both ends and one left of center.

Inside, remnants of a wall plate can be seen at the back of the ground-floor rooms on the left and right, with a jetty to the left of the rear door. A scarfed chamfer-stopped spine beam runs through both rooms on the right. The center room has a chamfered bressumer and heck at the fireplace. There is a re-used closed-string staircase with pierced splat mirror balusters, a moulded handrail, and a chamfer-stopped newel post. The first-floor rooms on the right also feature chamfer-stopped spine beams. The house has early documented associations with Byland Abbey.