Grade II Listed Country House
This character country house is thought to have been built in the late 16th century as a small country rectory on a site where it is thought a possible medieval priest's house once stood.
The house was for many centuries a rectory.
A program to enlarge the original house and add a grand façade was started in 1730 but 22 years later when the house changed hands the work had still not been finished. This left the south west corner unfinished and the south frontage looking asymmetrical.
It had always been intended that a further 2 window section would be added on to the south west corner to make the façade symmetrical but the work was never completed, probably due to lack of funds.
Part of the old building had been demolished and evidence of the original fabric of the building is still to be found in the wall between the current entrance hall and study.
The south west corner was "finished" in approx. 1840 with the building of a study and bedroom above. The house remained as a rectory up to 1954.
The present owners intend to sympathetically restore the main house and build on as planned the south west corner complete with façade to give the building the symmetry that was always intended.
Finished restoration from the front
Finished restoration from the front
Looking through new gates from inside yard
Side of building
View of south west corner before demolition
Rear Courtyard
Scaffold in place ready for the careful
demolition of the old south west corner
Demolition in progress