The Old Rectory, Plympton

The Old Rectory is a grade II* listed townhouse in Plympton, Devon, England.

[3] The building was formerly the rectory for the Church of St Maurice across the former marketplace immediately to the north.

As revealed when the British archaeology television programme Time Team visited Plympton in 1998, today's building was installed around the earlier shell, leaving a one-foot gap between the two frontages.

When the rebuild happened, around the turn of the 17th century, the road was raised to provide a grand entrance to the new front door and, in so doing, created a basement from the formerly ground-level main floor of the medieval house.

[6] The door is set back about two feet into the façade, atop three stone steps.

View from the castle