The Old Rectory

The Old Rectory is a medium-sized country house. It features a central three-bay older unit with later single-bay cross wings projecting on each side, and a single-storey porch bay that spans the area between the bays at the front. Due to the sloping ground, the older unit is three storeys high at the rear and two storeys at the front. The building is primarily constructed of coursed stone rubble, with some rockfaced and snecked stone, and is rendered on the south side. It has Welsh slate hipped roofs with overhanging eaves and boarded soffits, along with narrow, long rendered chimneys.

The road frontage includes a central pointed arched porch bay entrance leading to a later glazed lobby, and three small four-light canted bay windows under the eaves on the first floor. Each hipped-roofed wing on the sides features a 2/2 pane sash window at the first-floor level. On the river frontage, the higher right wing has a shallow full-height bay with a 2/2 pane sash window on the first floor and a shallow ground floor five-light cross-framed bay window with a pitched roof. The left bay has similar sashes on each floor.

Stepping back to the centre, the older range has a central round arched multipane staircase window on the top floor, with a small four-pane window under the eaves to the right and an altered window to the left. The first floor has two windows, including a 6/6 pane casement to the right, all featuring shallow stone sills. The ground floor has altered openings behind the conservatory. Attached to the left by a wall with a cambered arched doorway is the former coach house, which has been converted to accommodation. A garden wall extends further north and south across the frontage.

Inside, the layout retains the plan of the older central unit, with rooms on either side of the central staircase, although there is little detail preserved. Stepped down to the left is the former drawing room of the Rectory, and the ground floor rear kitchen retains a single lightly chamfered cross beam.