Heathfield Rectory

Heathfield Rectory is a rectory, now divided into flats, built around 1860 on the site of an earlier rectory by Edward Jeboulte. The building is constructed of uncoursed local stone and features quoins, low stepped buttresses to the cross gables, overhanging eaves with decorative bargeboards, patterned clay tiles, decorative ridge tiles, and brick stacks on the ridge. It has an L-shaped plan with a short entrance front to the west, a long south front, and a turret in the southeast corner.

The west front is two storeys high with three bays on the left and one bay on the right. It includes two- and three-light mullioned and transomed windows, half-timbered gables to the windows on the left, and an entrance located centre right. The steeply pitched gabled porch has patterned clay tiles and shaped wooden supports on a stone plinth, with a depressed four-centred arch doorway and a coeval door. The long south front has five bays, three half-timbered gables, and a large cross gable on the right, with another entrance in the second bay from the left. The right return, or east front, features a gable, a single-storey canted bay, and a tall spire with a bell-cast, slated roof, supported by pierced trefoil-headed supports in the southeast corner.

Historically, the incumbents, the Rev. Spurway and his son, brewed cider here, which they marketed commercially with some success. The building is a lively composition that remains remarkably unaltered.