Former Stable and Cartshed facing road at Old Rectory.

The former stable and cartshed at the Old Rectory is a rectangular building constructed from rubble, which has been whitewashed and sits on boulder foundations. It features a slate roof with raised eaves, evident from the old roofline on the downhill gable. The front of the building includes a timber lintel over a stable door on the left and tall boarded doors for the cartshed on the right, with a blocked window situated between them. The rear has a single, central boarded door, and the unusually long timber lintel, along with a straight joint in the masonry, suggests that this opening was once much wider, although it was not originally designed that way. Next to this door, there is a protruding foot of a cruck blade, which the masonry walling is built around. The north-east corner shows a change in the masonry, and there are slate steps leading up the bank at the front. Additionally, there is a 19th-century three-seater stone privy located in the angle to the south-west.

Inside, the building has a four-bay layout with cruck trusses to the south and 19th-century trusses to the north. Both cruck couples are still present but have been cut at the elbow to accommodate later ceilings, and they are made from massive un-chamfered timbers. The blackening of the timbers suggests there may have been an open hearth, indicating domestic use, which supports an early date for the building; however, there is no evidence of a chimney, so a former smoke bay cannot be ruled out. The floors are cobbled and flagged, and there is a recess in the front wall that corresponds to the blocked window, with a boarded cill. The interior fittings are primarily mid-19th century or modern. The stable section on the left contains three stalls, with a tack-room in the center and the cartshed on the right, which also has a blocked window beside the door.