The Old Rectory — THREECASTLES

Detached two-bay two-storey over raised basement gable-fronted Board of First Fruits glebe house with dormer attic, built 1800, with single-bay two-storey lower entrance end bay to right, and single-bay two-storey recessed lower end bay to left. In use, 1946-7. Now in private residential use. Pitched (gable-fronted) slate roof (hipped roofs to end bays (behind parapet to entrance end bay)) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, slightly sproketed eaves, timber bargeboards to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls with rendered parapet to entrance end bay. Square-headed window openings (lunette window opening to gable blocked-up with painted render over) with cut-limestone sills, nine-over-six (ground floor) and three-over-six (first floor) timber sash windows having six-over-six timber sash window to first floor entrance end bay. Round-headed door opening with cut-limestone step over open basement having wrought iron railings, painted cut-stone Gibbsian surround having keystone, and timber panelled door having fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with concealed piers having iron gates.