The Old Rectory And Beauchamp Manor

The Old Rectory and Beauchamp Manor is a building dating from 1873, designed by R.W. Drew of London for V.S.S. Coles. It was originally a rectory, and is now divided into two dwellings. The building is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings, and has tile roofs, with pennant detailing dated 1873. It has tall stone stacks. The architectural style is High Victorian Tudor and neo-Early English, arranged roughly around a T-plan, and is described as “rather plain and gaunt.” It features a central hall for meals, and an oratory facing east, without an altar, intended for private prayer and confessions. The building is two storeys and an attic, with a taller gabled cross-wing to the north. A projecting south wing has a hipped roof with half-hipped dormers over the first-floor windows. Windows are irregular, with one, two, and three lights, some incorporating transoms, trefoiled heads, sash windows, and iron casements. The east front includes the projecting oratory and an adjacent stair-turret with a conical roof, featuring a foiled oculus in the gable, with a buttress below, alongside some stained glass. The main entrance is on the north side, with a moulded pointed-arch freestone surround and paired panelled doors. Internally, there is a cantilevered staircase with turned newels.