The Old Rectory

A Domestic Revival style 2-storey former rectory composed of 4 picturesquely grouped gabled wings. Walls are brick, with terracotta mouldings, mullioned windows and banding, and gables with fleur-de-lis tiles in relief. The tile roof has slightly overhanging eaves, and has brick stacks with moulded angles. The asymmetrical N entrance front has its entrance R of centre, a porch and 2-storey vestibule under a pyramid roof. The timber-framed porch is on a brick dwarf wall and has moulded posts and black-and-white framed gable. The ribbed door is under a segmental head. The vestibule has a transomed window L of the porch, above which are 1-light and 2-light windows. Set forward to the L the elevation is dominated by a gabled bay with 5-light double-transomed window, replaced segmental-headed doorway to its L, and 2 cross windows in the upper storey. Set slightly back further L is a narrow bay with 3-light transomed window in the lower storey and 2-light window above. Set back on the R side of the porch is the return of the W garden front, which has a single blind window.

The irregular 3-bay W garden front is also asymmetrical. On the L side is the gable end of the N front, which has 3-light windows, transomed in the lower storey. To its R is a range half-hipped to the L. It has a narrow recessed baywith 2-light windows, transomed in the lower storey, between which is diamond pattern brickwork with whitened render infill (a signature motif of Douglas). Further R is a cross window in the lower storey and 1-light and 2-light upper-storey windows. In the asymmetrical 2-bay S garden front the gable end of the W front to the L has 4-light transomed windows, taller in the lower storey. A narrower advanced gabled bay to the R has a large 7-light transomed window in the lower storey and 4-light above. In the E front, where a large wing was taken down in the late C20, most windows are stone mullioned replacements, but two 2-light windows have survived in the upper storey.

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