The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a former rectory dating from the earlier 19th century. It is constructed of painted stucco with slate eaves roofs. The building features two parallel roofs with double gabled end walls and four painted roughcast end wall chimneys. The garden front presents a three-storey, three-bay facade, distinguished by a central pedimental gable and flat eaves. The main floor windows are notable for their earlier 19th-century stucco hoodmoulds, which cover small-paned cross-windows on the ground floor (to the left and right) and hornless 12-pane sashes on the first floor. An arched doorway is centrally positioned, incorporating panelled reveals. The door itself is six-panelled and includes a radiating-bar fanlight with marginal glazing. Attic windows consist of small square four-pane windows on either side and a large arched small-paned sash with radiating bars in the gable head. A 20th-century lean-to has been added to the right end wall, which lacks windows above the front range. The south front has three first-floor small square windows with renewed casement pairs, a cambered headed hornless 16-pane sash window on the ground floor to the left, a central four-panel door with a large overlight (with marginal glazing bars), and another 16-pane sash window to the right, but positioned at a mid-height, above a broad 20th-century basement window with 15 panes.

The east end wall features a stone-tiled rubble-stone lean-to, indented in the centre to accommodate a recessed 20th-century side door. The left gable is windowless above, while the right gable boasts a central first-floor window and an attic casement pair to the right. The gables overhang with flat eaves.

To the east of the garden front stands an earlier 19th-century Gothic screen wall, serving to screen the east lean-to with a battlemented short wall, a Tudor arch, and a hoodmoulded blank window to the left. A buttress against the east end of the main house, rising from the screen wall, is likely decorative.

The interior is arranged across different levels, with the north entry level located half a storey above the front ground floor. The front range contains a good earlier 19th-century Gothic chimneypiece with two coats of arms and Gothic panels to piers, along with two encased beams and an earlier 18th-century fielded panelled wall cupboard. An east-side room contains a massive bowed beam on a partition and two boxed beams, featuring a renewed chimneypiece and a rear wall cupboard with shelves. Front windows are equipped with earlier 19th-century panelled shutters and four-panel doors. The staircase has earlier 19th-century open treads, a thin moulded continuous rail, and stick balusters, with a short flight leading to the rear entrance level whose rail is curved to return to the front first floor. An east bedroom displays four beams, with the east one carried on four stone corbels, possibly dating to the 16th century. A west bedroom retains 18th-century features, including a fielded panelled door, two cupboard doors, a shouldered fireplace surround, and one squared beam. A stair rises to the rear first-floor landing, connecting to the back and front range attics. The attic contains massive roof trusses on wall-posts extending down to lower corbels, suggesting a raising and reuse, possibly from a lower pitch.

The rear range is two-storied, with a lower elevation to the west, incorporating a basement and two floors. The basement to the west features one large beam. Steps lead up to the east kitchen, characterized by a higher ceiling and one large beam, as well as one smaller beam. A ground-floor room in the west has a four-panel door, while the room to the east is accessed via steps at a higher level. The western room showcases a heavy beam. The roof over the rear range was altered in the earlier 19th century, with some reused purlins. The west room contains a truss with a wall-post down to a corbel.