The Old Rectory

Former rectory, rubble stone with steep purple slate roofs, banded in blue slate. Domestic Gothic style. Two storeys and attic, T-plan with porch in NE angle and broad 2-storey service range lean-to on W side. Massive chimneys with sides sloped in, and string course under short tops. Two on W side at joint with lean-to roof and one, now roughcast on S wall face. N side has big gable to right, lean-to porch against E side, in angle to windowless N side of E gable. Gable has two-light small-paned windows, flush to wall-face, without sills. Chamfered and stopped mullion and jambs, shorter to attic, with cement hoodmoulds. Pointed relieving arches over lower windows. Porch has single similar casement each floor to N and doorway to E with pointed relieving arch and massive stone lintel over panelled door. E gable end has similar flush mullion windows, all with stone relieving arches, 2-light to upper floors, three-light to ground floor. S side has single light to right of flat-roofed two-storey C20 addition. Large roughcast chimney-stack on original wall-face behind. S gable to left has stone hoodmoulds over purple sandstone lintels and pointed relieving arches to all openings, 6-pane sash to each upper floor, and C20 French window paired with original long 2-light with small panes. W side has two stone stacks on side of main roof and lean-to with close-eaves and roughcast chimney at right corner. One first floor casement to left and a very small casement pair left of centre to first floor, ground floor has three casements with timber lintels, the left one shorter, the right one with pointed relieving arch. N end has single light each floor, the lower one with pointed relieving arch. S end has single light over French window. Single storey scullery range runs W from S end, with door and window, and two doors. Coach-house and stable range has N end big cambered arched coach-entry with stone voussoirs, big double loft doors over with pointed relieving arch. Tooled angle quoins. E side has casement pair to right, door and window to left (former stable). Gothic arched window in S end wall, with stone voussoirs. S side of low scullery range has door to left.

N porch enters via pointed arch into narrow hall with stair to S. Dog-leg stair with chamfered and stopped newels and balusters, and closed string. Large room to E has modern fireplace. To W, a passage with S drawing room with ashlar Caernarvon-arched fireplace, chamfered with bar stops, shelf over. Moulded cornice. Four-panel doors in raised chamfered and stopped surrounds. N of passage is former study with panelled shutters. Passage runs W to NW service stair and SW kitchen. First floor bedrooms and nurseries. Service stair up to attic rooms with narrow fireplaces.