NHER 16893 (Building record) - Old Rectory

31 December 1980. Visit.
Early 19th century Tudor Revival brick building, good quality.
Angle pilasters on south façade and on slightly projecting central bay, and on gable walls. Plain stables to north.
Interior retains some original Gothick cupboards, painted heraldic glass etc. Extensive barrel-vaulted brick cellars.
Formerly with shaft to external yard. End bay has many wine bins (house once belonged to a wine merchant), but is coated with tar and other deposits of an intense fire. This may have some connection with a boiler later inserted in an adjacent external cellar now blocked, or may indicate a fire, confined by the door of this bay. Under the courtyard are said to be two brick-vaulted water cisterns and a deep brick well.
Very good condition.
E. Rose (NAU)

1836 by William Donthorne for Rev. Henry Collison, according to (S1). This makes attribution by owners in 1980 to a wine merchant's house as unlikely.
E. Rose (NAU), 11 November 1985.