The Rectory — High Street

Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey over basement Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland glebe house, built 1819, on a rectangular plan. Vacant, 1901. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1988. Renovated, 1989. Hipped slate roof abutting hipped slate roof (north), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered central chimney stack on axis with ridge having stepped capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement centred on square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows having two-over-two sidelights centred on six-over-six timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): hall (north) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and picture railing below moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; drawing room (south-west) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; dining room (south-east) retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, cut-veined red marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors. Set back from street in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.