7 Rectory Lane, Dysart

This is a two-story, five-bay classical house dating to 1771. The building exhibits group value, contributing to the character of its setting. It is constructed from squared and coursed rubble with raised ashlar margins and quoin strips, with harl on the rear elevation. It features a moulded eaves cornice, and the main elevation is distinguished by a Roman Doric-columned doorcase.

The principal, or southwest, elevation has a doorcase with a deep cavetto splay and a two-leaf panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight. Windows are positioned in the flanking bays on each floor, with the first-floor windows being taller. The attic wall above is blank, concealing modern rooflights on the left side.

The southeast elevation displays a window to the right of centre on the ground floor and a broad arch – a former cart entrance - to the far right. First-floor windows are off-centre to the right, and a small, pointed-arch window is situated above, adjacent to a broad gablehead stack.

The southwest elevation, facing Quality Street, features an advanced, harled wall associated with a restaurant entrance at ground level. Windows are placed to the left on the first floor and centrally on the attic level.

The northeast elevation displays a swept roof over a projecting bay, which formerly housed a covered carriage entrance, adjoining a single-story extension. A separate, listed Masonic Hall abuts the building on the ground floor to the right, with a recessed face containing a first-floor window and an elliptical-arched dormer windowhead breaking the eaves.

The windows are timber sash and case windows, with four-pane and twelve-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with graded grey slates. There are cavetto-coped, panelled ashlar stacks with decorative cans, and ashlar-coped skews.

The interior features decorative plasterwork cornicing on the first floor (plain on the ground floor) and panelled shutters. A dogleg staircase is present, with timber balusters (two per tread) and a handrail. The first-floor landing has a Doric column with an abacus. A first-floor drawing room contains a keystoned niche with scalloped shelves and a fireplace with panelled pilasters, fluted frieze, dentilled cornice, dado rail and picture rail. Exposed timbers are evident on the attic floor, alongside a fireplace with a cast-iron register grate.

High harled and rubble boundary walls enclose the property. A southwest quadrant gateway, dating to the early 19th century, is present on Rectory Lane, with a base course, square-section ashlar outer piers and a pilastered entrance having a stone lintel (possibly moulded) and two-leaf boarded timber doors with decorative iron hinges.