The Old Rectory

SESSAY MAIN STREET SE 47 NE (east side, off) 4/39 The Old Rectory 1.5.52 GV II Rectory, now house. C18 with later additions and alterations and reroofed after a fire in the 1920s. Rendered; Welsh slate roof. 2-storey (formerly 3), symmetrical 7-bay front with single-storey wing to left. Plinth. Central bay recessed having entrance with 6-panel double door, top 4 panels glazed, in bolection-moulded architrave under bracketed hood. Narrow sashes with glazing bars and projecting sills. Hipped roof with broad stacks at either end of ridge and another cross-ridge stack at left end. Lower wing on left has C20 French windows to right of sash with glazing bars; roof hipped on left taller single-storey wing behind. Rear: round-arched stair window with glazing bars, radial in head; some sashes with glazing bars. Right return: 3 bays; French windows to ground floor, sashes with glazing bars above; on right, raised verge with gable stack. Left return, wing: narrower 18-pane sashes with glazing bars. Interior: panelled doors; rear right room has stone fireplace with eared architrave, frieze and cornice under mirror flanked by early C19 fitted cabinets; dog-leg, open-string stair with stick balusters and spiral curtail to handrail. The 3rd storey was destroyed by fire in the 1920s, but the ridge of the roof and the chimneys appear to be the original height.

Listing NGR: SE4615675117