The Old Parsonage

The Old Parsonage is a former parsonage house, now a private residence, dating to the 17th century. It is constructed of roughly coursed Cary stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings, featuring a plain clay tile roof with coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The building follows an ‘L’ shape, with a north elevation of four bays. Bay 4 is the gable end of a return wing. The north elevation contains leaded casement windows of three lights under timber lintols in bays 1 and 2, iron-framed opening lights, a four-light ovolo-mould mullioned window under a square label in bay 3, and two single-light leaded windows at ground level in bay 4; a window is blocked at first floor level. The west-facing return wing, of two bays, has ovolo-mould timber-framed windows with leaded lights and iron opening frames, a three-light pattern above and a four-light pattern below. A matching, probably later, extension extends southwards, linked by a single-storey section that contains a 20th-century entrance door. An interior inspection has not been possible. The property was the residence of the 18th-century diarist Parson Woodforde, and the living was held by his family for nearly 100 years.