The Old Rectory — Mill Street

Detached two-bay two-storey rendered former rectory, built c. 1815, now private house. Rectangular plan to original house, single-storey lean-to extension to north gable, two-bay two-storey wing to west c. 1820. Hipped slate roofs, clay ridge and hip tiles, centrally-positioned red brick corbelled chimneystack to original house, yellow brick corbelled chimneystacks to west wing, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Unpainted smooth-rendered walling, high parapet wall to east of north extension concealing corrugated-iron lean-to roof. Square-headed window openings, ground floor windows to east elevation set in elliptical-headed recesses, painted smooth-rendered slightly-projecting reveals, stone sills, painted six-over-six timber sash windows to east and south elevations, three-over-three to first floor, various painted timber casement windows to courtyard elevations including elaborate diamond-paned fixed light to west elevation of north extension. Square-headed entrance doorway in east side of north extension, Gibbsian dressed ashlar limestone surround, painted timber door with ten flush-beaded panels. Courtyard to north-west enclosed on west and north sides by two-storey outbuildings, pitched slate roofs, external stone staircase on north gable of west range. Set in landscaped gardens, church to north, tall roughcast boundary wall to Mill Street, painted vertically-sheeted timber gates with concave top surmounted with cast-iron embellishments on roughly-dressed stone pillars with rustic tufa caps.