The Fortified Rectory

The Fortified Rectory is a Grade II* listed building featuring a 40-meter length of high wall at the entrance, which includes a large archway. To the south and west of the house, there is a walled garden, and the Former Tithe Barn is located approximately 50 meters to the northwest.

Access to the house is from the north side, where a central defensive tower is flanked by an earlier section on the right and a 19th-century wing on the left. The structure is primarily built of random-rubble masonry, with some coursed sections. The main roofs are gabled, covered with slates and a tiled ridge. There is an end chimney on the west side, two chimneys attached to the tower, and another in the center of the east wing. The central tower and the adjacent stair turret feature the beginnings of corbelled parapets, although they have a later hipped roof and no remaining crenellations.

The older parts of the house have twelve-pane sash windows, while the east wing has 16-pane hornless sash windows, all dating from the 19th century, with rendered surrounds. One window in the defensive tower occupies the space of an earlier, larger opening beneath a four-centred arch at first-floor level, with the current main doorway located beneath this arch. The stair turret next to the tower is illuminated by loopholes and one inserted sash window on the side.

Inside, the early cross-wing roof features four surviving arch-braced collar-beam trusses, which have a wide chamfer on the underside. The trusses are not visible above collar level, and there are no visible purlins or windbracing. A doorway from the defensive tower into the main part of the house has stone reveals with holes for a bar to be drawn across, indicating its defensive purpose.