Castleterra Rectory

Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey former rectory, built 1788, now in use as private house. Hipped and sprocketed slate roof with clay ridge tiles, overhanging plainly treated eaves, central chimneystacks to main front and to ridge to side wing, both rendered painted with plain cornice, and replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with quoins to front elevation, roughcast rendered walls to remaining elevations. Window openings with stone sills, replacement windows except for Wyatt window in north-west elevation having six-over-six timber sash windows with two-over-two side sashes. Round-headed door opening with Gibbsian surround and keystone with entablature salient below fanlight, having raised and fielded nine panelled timber door. Flight of five stone steps to threshold flanked by rendered walls. Two ranges of single-storey outbuildings enclosing elongated yard the south-east, closed at the south end by symmetrical two-storey stable block with hipped slated roof, rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins, brick dressings to windows and to central carriage arch, and stone sills.

A fine example of a late eighteenth-century glebe house with associated outbuildings, built at a cost of £649, and originally having 311 statute acres of glebe lands attached. Further improvements in the 1830s probably including the fine stable block to the south. The Gibbsian door surround, timber panelled door, and the surviving Wyatt window are important original details and materials. The outbuildings recall that eighteenth and nineteenth century rectors also farmed the glebe lands which provided a substantial part of the clergyman’s income. The house stands on high ground overlooking the drumlin landscape and can be seen from the main road to the east. Castleterra Glebe was the residence of the rector of Ballyhaise Church, a substantial church rebuilt in 1820.