Ingemann was born in the rectory as the youngest of nine children in 1789 and lived there until his father's death ten years later.

He has described his early childhood memories from the rectory in Denne Aldersopfattelse af hint Barndomsli.

[4] The rectory has white-plastered walls, a thatched roof and stands on a black-painted foundation of field stones.

[1] The original two-winged building is located on the north and west side of a yard.

The residential north wing from 1763 is mostly built with timber framing but with smaller sections of masonry.