NHER 13779 (Building record) - Yaxham House (formerly Rectory)

Built as the rectory by Robert Lagar in 1822 for the Reverend John Johnson, this is a two storey colourwashed brick building in the style of an Italianate villa, with slate roofs. The symmetrical entrance façade has three window bays, the outer ones projecting slightly under pediments, and a large central entrance porch on pairs of Greek Doric columns. Inside, the chimneypiece was painted by William Blake from a painting by Cowper (Johnson's cousin), though the remaining fragments of these are thought to have been moved.